Papers and Viewpoints

Buddhist Reflections on 9/11

The West Against the Rest? - David Loy

Through a Glass, Darkly: Towards a Buddhist Perspective on Israel & Palestine - Alan Senauke
Political Dissent and InterBeing - David Sawyer
On the Nonduality of Good and Evil - David Loy
Karma: Did They Deserve It? - Santikaro Bhikkhu
A New Holy War Against Evil? - David Loy

Consumerism

Consumer Biscuits
Consumerism & The Way Out Of Consumerism - Ken Jones
Do You Have Enough Time To Read This? - Ken Jones

Demythologizing Consumerism: A Buddhist Pathway - Jonathan Watts
THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH (Dukkha): The Spiritual Roots And Delusion Of Consumer Culture
THE SECOND NOBLE TRUTH (Samudaya) Deconstructing Consumer Behaviour
THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH (Nirodha): A Life Beyond Consumer Attachment
THE FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH (Magga): Practicing Personal and Social Connnection

The Religion of Consumption: A Buddhist Perspective - Jonathan Watts and David Loy
Spiritual Materialism and the Sacraments of Consumerism: A View from Thailand - Phra Phaisan Visalo
Key Characteristics Of Consumerism & Buddhist Foils

Globalization

Shall We Pave the Planet, or Learn To Wear Shoes? - David Loy

Transpersonal Psychology and Personal Development

Jesus and Buddha as Stories? - David Loy
 

Socially Engaged Buddhism

The Search for Socially Engaged Buddhism in Japan - Jonathan Watts
Directory Guide of Buddhist NGOs in Japan
An Activist's Tool Box for Popularising the Social Dharma - Ken Jones
A Socially Engaged Buddhist Methodology (!?) - Diana Winston
Emptiness and Form - Ken Jones
How Shall We Save the World? - Nelson Foster
Can Buddhism Save the World? A Response - David Loy
Socially Engaged Buddhism & Modernity - Santikaro Bhikkhu

The Relationship between Science and Religion

A Dhammic Pedagogy: True Religion and True Science - Jonathan Watts

Family and Education

Gender & Buddhism:  Patriarchy & Inter-Relatedness

Consumerism and Gender Violence - Shelley Anderson
Feminism and Buddhism - Ouyporn Khuankaew

Modernity and Culture

Everyone Needs Vinaya : Reflections on Buddhist Lifestyles - Santikaro Bhikkhu
The Spiritual Roots of Modernity - David Loy
The Spiritual Origins of the West - David Loy
Reinhabiting the Flatland - Jonathan Watts

Development and Economics

A Buddhist Critique of Transnational Corporations - David Loy
The Religion of the Market - David Loy
Is The Crisis Just Economic? - Jonathan Watts

The Dialogue with the World Bank
Re-envisioning "Development": A Buddhist Perspective
World Faiths Development Dialogue - Alan Senauke

Civil Society, Community and Network Building

Integrating Spirituality into People's Politics - Phra Paisal Visalo
Religion as the Original Third Sector - Santikaro Bikkhu
The Spiritual Roots of Civil Society : A Buddhist Perspective - David Loy

New Buddhist Movements & Fundamentalism

Movements in British Buddhism - Ken Jones
The Secularization of Japanese Buddhism: The Priest as Profane Practitioner of the Sacred - Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu
Thailand: Buddhism for the Next Century - Phra Phaisan Visalo
Japan: Funeral Buddhism as Engaged Buddhism - Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu

Renunciation

Relinquishment & Renunciation - Rev. Alan Senauke
 

Racism and Buddhism

On Race & Buddhism - Rev. Alan Senauke

Ecology

Earth Spirituality- A New Eco-social Paradigm - Siddhartha
Today's Ecological Adventure: Poacher's at Home - Santikaro Bhikku



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