Five Things Religion-Haters Should Know

Stuart Davis offers us a nice piece of writing that confronts what many might see as fundamental flaws in the Rationalist’s arguments against religion. I just finished reading God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. He’s given us another powerful work in...

Dalai Lama’s Successor Dilemma… take a vote.

So very interesting… The People’s Daily Online reports: According to an interview with People’s Daily Online, professor Shen Weirong, director of the Research Center on Han-Tibetan Buddhism at Renmin University of China, and expert on Tibet, said...

Renaissance Roshi

Ross Robertson of EnlightenNext has a nice piece on an interesting pioneer: Jun Po Roshi—dharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zen—came to...

He’s Not the Messiah! He’s a Naughty, Naughty Boy!

A couple of more pieces on the ongoing saga of Osel Hita Torres who recently left monastic life and his tradition: Over at the Guardian, Victoria Coren offers up an interesting bit of analysis: …you have to know what you are rejecting. Otherwise, the rejection...

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