HERE’S a roundup of news articles and blog posts about Buddhism and politics for the week of 16 to 22 April 2012:
Engaged Buddhism
Historic White House Conference: Community Building in the 21st Century with Strengthened Dharmic Faith-Based Institutions
16 April 2012
Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Sikh leaders [...]
I HAVE been at a loss for topics today. Thinking back on my last two blog posts—about the controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s slurs against Sandra Fluke and Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign—something finally came to me. Though very different, both relate to the importance of what we say and how we [...]
ANYONE who hasn’t been under a social media rock for the past week is aware of the Kony 2012 video and viral marketing campaign started by Invisible Children. The goal is to convince US policymakers to intervene in the ongoing crisis in Central Africa by providing more US military [...]
THIS morning I was thinking about the recent controversy over the Obama administration’s proposed mandate requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover contraception. It brought to mind this passage from King Asoka’s famous Thirteenth Rock Edict:
Indeed, King Asoka is deeply pained by the killing, [...]
I WAS interviewed recently by Rev. Danny Fisher about Buddhism and the Occupy Movement. Be sure to check out “Interview: Joshua Eaton Talks #OWS and @OccupyBuddhism” over at Danny’s wonderful Patheos blog, Off the Cushion: A Blog About Buddhism and Social Justice.
ON MONDAY, Republicans gave in to Democrats’ extension of payroll tax cuts, which has me thinking about a handy quote from Advice on Kingship by the famous Tibetan polymath Jamgon Mipham Gyatso (1846-1912):
If one doesn’t collect taxes which are reasonable,
and not take equally from the rich and poor
I SPENT the night of 26 January with Occupy UMass-Boston as they encamped in their student center. Several people from Occupy Wall Street were also there as part of their ongoing bus tour of occupations in the Northeast. (You can follow the tour at @OWSBus and #OccuTrip, or you [...]
AS I have written about here before, Dana Wiki is a website that I started in 2008 to help Buddhist organizations get involved in social service. Toward the end of last year Dana Wiki’s DNS registration expired and I did a small WePay fundraiser to re-register its domain name.
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I WAS interviewed about Occupy Boston and student loan debt by Elaine Quijano of the CBS Evening News on Friday 14 October. You can see the full interview here. (Unfortunately, embedding is disabled on the video, so you’ll have to watch it at YouTube.)
ON 18 July 2011, Sam Mowe wrote about diversity within American Buddhism for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‘s blog in an article titled “Tell Us Your Story.” One of the comments to that post led to another post on Tricycle‘s blog by Monty McKeever, “Why Is Buddhism So Damned Expensive?” [...]
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