The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze > Buddhist art, if there is such a thing, is perhaps too important to be left to art historians

📰 The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze (A free, 46-page article from 1998)

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Zen Forms: Customs and Rituals and Why They Matter > In themselves, the forms are indeed empty and many of them are utterly arbitrary, but they are also profound and precious.

🗣️ Customs and Rituals and Why They Matter (A free, 23-minute podcast from 2017)

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Why Do People Begin to Meditate and Why Do They Continue? > We found a large number of different categories that go beyond those identified in previous research. > Reasons changed with increasing meditation practice, although spiritual goals tended to become more important only for practitioners with a spiritual background.

📰 Why Do People Begin to Meditate and Why Do They Continue? (A free, 19-page article from 2020)

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The Roles and Impacts of Worldviews in the Context of Meditation-Related Challenges > This paper investigates the impacts worldviews have on the nature and trajectory of meditation-related challenges, as well as how worldviews change or are impacted by such challenges. > [...] > We identify and discuss the various impacts that religious and scientific worldviews have on meditation practitioners and meditation teachers who navigate periods of challenge associated with the practice.

📰 The Roles and Impacts of Worldviews in the Context of Meditation-Related Challenges (A free, 14-page article from 2022)

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The Question: “What in Buddhism have you changed your mind about, and why?” Gen X Buddhists answer

I'm not sure which label confuses my sense of self more, being called "old" or being called a "leader." Ah well. 8 Worldly Winds and all that.

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Why Mindfulness isn't Enough > Minds need a context. Mind needs fire and water, breath and ritual, it needs stories and song… it needs to establish a living relationship with those that came before and those yet to come, to offer in devotion and to enact its place in the cosmos. Such realizations return us to the sacredness of form. We find that all of the supposedly ‘non-essential’, ritual, form-based aspects of tradition actually architect a mind that has true fullness

🗣️ Why Mindfulness isn't Enough (A ✨NEW✨, free, 96-minute podcast)

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The Dharma and Young People - Buddhistdoor Global Anam Thubten Rinpoche ponders the future of the Buddhadharma in the West and engaging with young people.

BDG feature: The Dharma and Young People

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The Buddhist Identity Crisis - Buddhistdoor Global Asa Hershoff offers a critical view of the challenges and opportunities for Buddhism in the 21st century.

BDG feature: The Buddhist Identity Crisis

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Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems With the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith > For most of the history of Buddhism, “devotional” practices like prayer, invocation, and offerings have not been at odds or even very distinctly separated from “contempla- tive” practices such as meditation, sutra copying, and sutra recitation.

📰 Problems With the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith (A free, 15-page article from 2005)

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Workshops Announced to Help Buddhist Organizations in Leadership, Planning, and Fundraising - Buddhistdoor Global Bruner Strategies launches 2025 workshops to help Buddhist leaders strengthen fundraising, governance, and strategic planning through blending practical tools with Dharma values

BDG news: Workshops Announced to Help Buddhist Organizations in Leadership, Planning, and Fundraising

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So, You Want to be a Buddhist Author, Eh? Part One of A Six-Part Exploration Into the World of Buddhist Publishing - Buddhistdoor Global Drawing from decades of work in Buddhist publishing, John Harvey Negru introduces us to the world of Buddhist authors in our complex and changing social landscape

BDG feature: So, You Want to be a Buddhist Author, Eh? Part One of A Six-Part Exploration Into the World of Buddhist Publishing

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D. T. Suzuki: A Brief Account of His Life > As Zen aspirants beat a path to Suzuki’s door, he seemed to embrace his new role as Zen’s champion [in the West]. By then his earlier goals of rehabilitating Buddhism in Japan and legitimating Mahayana were largely accomplished.

📰 A Brief Account of His Life (A free, 83-page article from 2022)

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The Transformation of Buddhism During British Colonialism > The modern idea of religion as divorced from power succeeded in dislodging the influence that Buddhism had over Sri Lankan politics, but only for a short time...

📰 The Transformation of Buddhism During British Colonialism (A free, 22-page article from 1999)

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You will never ‘become everything’.
You may experience the Macrocosm as a microcosm, but you will never usurp it and negate the individuation of everyone else.

That’s impossible.

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Buddhism in America A series of 16 short essays giving an excellent, high-level introduction to the history of Buddhism in America.

📖 Buddhism in America (A free, 33-page book from 2013)

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