2024 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Minny Lee We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her essay entitled “Korean Buddhist Temple Food:…
Tag: Buddhism
GURU PURNIMA – Associated Traditions and Gurus
Today, on the occasion of Guru Purnima, I thought about shedding some light on the traditions which are associated with “Gurus”. To begin, Guru Purnima is traditionally…
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne and James Taylor: State and crisis in Sri Lanka and Thailand: Hearing but not listening in the Theravāda Buddhist world
Although historically and geographically diverse, but sharing religious cultural roots, contemporary Sri Lanka and Thailand are both characterised by authoritarianism. This parallel cannot be explain…
Amy Binning takes the Page 99 test
Just clinging to the end of page 99 in my dissertation is a tentative question: “but should it really be that the presence of a model, even a…
Review of Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction,
My review of the tremendously exciting collection of translated South Korean science fiction: Readymade Bodhisattva. It’s the first of its kind in English, and serves as a tremendous…
Book Forum––Robert Desjarlais’ Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World by Todd Meyers
Robert Desjarlais’s Subject to Death is like stepping onto a train already in motion. Its momentum isn’t fierce but there’s no time to ease in––from its…
Burning incense | 烧香
One month ago I happened to drop by Basement6 right on time for the opening of a solo exhibition by Shangainese artist 许聪 Xu Cong called Technological Spectacle…
Tantra and Transparency, or Cultural Contradiction and Today’s Tibetan Buddhist Wizard
This is the first of a series of articles that I will be posting this month as a guest-contributor for Savage Minds. In each post I will be sharing…