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

The “Suicide Priests” of Japan and the Search for Gross National Happiness – by JonathanWatts
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

Suicide and Alienation

The “Suicide Priests” of Japan and the Search for Gross National Happiness by JonathanWatts

Ecology

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

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