Volume 58. December 17, 2024 Celebrated diarist Anne Frank once wrote, “No one has ever become poor from giving.” With that attitude in mind, let’s run through the Buddha’s Holiday Gift-giving Guide. And what better way to begin than with a story. One day the head priest of a Zen temple in medieval Japan askedContinue reading “The Buddha’s Holiday Gift-giving Guide”
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Bro World Cheers Their Once and Future King
Volume 57. November 10, 2024 Trump supporters are in hog heaven. Kinder and gentler is out. Ruder and cruder is in. Women are out. Men are in. Like James Brown, the godfather of soul, once sang, “This is a man’s world.” Ever since the dawn of the Iron Age, ever since about 3500 BCE, everContinue reading “Bro World Cheers Their Once and Future King”
A Poignant Moment
Volume 51. May 15, 2024 My friends, we have reached a poignant moment. This moment marks the end of the Buddhist Studies Certificate Program at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha. What started in India in 500 BC, what spread across Asia for millennia, what ended in Tibet in 1959, will continue after we are gone.Continue reading “A Poignant Moment”
The Buddha Times 