- Can You Practice Buddhism by Studying It? A New Paper By Analayo
Is there an important difference between study and practice in early Buddhism? We'll look to one recent article by Bhikkhu Anālayo for help in answering this question. He investigates one apparent mistake in oral transmission of a…
- How Does Buddhist Practice Work?
How does Buddhist practice work? We will consider the Buddhist focus on dukkha or suffering/unsatisfactoriness, and how our spending time with it can paradoxically help us bring it to an end.
- Don't Buy This Book! (Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics clickbait title 🙂).
My good friend Justin Whitaker and I have a paper in the recently published Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics. I'll discuss some aspects of our paper, how it relates to Buddhist ethics, and some other interesting points before getting to…
- Was the Buddha a Philosopher?
The Buddha had some very interesting things to say, but was he a philosopher? Justin Whitaker and I recently wrote a paper on this topic, which I'll discuss here.
- Buddhist Fundamentalism
Recent events, particularly those involving the Rohingya in Burma and the role of nuns in Theravāda Buddhism, raise the question as to what constitutes Buddhist fundamentalism, and whether and how it might be different from its Western…