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When Judaism, that radioactive element, decays, it becomes other elements on the periodic table of the mind. Some would say Christianity is one such. Marx and Freud are more recent by-products. My wife’s adviser on her psychology Ph.D. thesis followed the trajectory Jew > Jung > Eastern...

Scotland announced plans for a minimum income The Scottish government is drawing up plans for a ‘minimum income guarantee’ to tackle poverty. The scheme would aim to provide everyone in Scotland with a minimum acceptable standard of living, ensuring they have enough money for housing, food and...

American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist Dr. Gail Omvedt (1941–2021) died on 25 August at her home in Kasegaon in rural Maharashtra, India. Omvedt passed after a prolonged illness, according to family members. She was 80 years old. Omvedt was born in Minneapolis and studied at...

Vietnam’s government has praised local religious groups’ efforts to follow measures to contain the coronavirus and provide generous contributions to victims. Vu Chien Thang, deputy minister of home affairs, said the fourth wave of the Covid-19 outbreak has caused thousands of infections every...

I was 23 years old when I first came to know about Jungto Society in 2013. Raised as a Catholic in Korea, I did not know much about Buddhism until one day, a friend of mine invited me to a talk by Venerable Pomnyun Sunim on his newly published book, A New Century. It was about how to peacefully...

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Tribune News Service Ludhiana, August 25 Cabinet Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Wednesday said the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) had decreased in the Buddha Nullah after fresh water was released into it. The minister took stock of the ongoing Rs 650-crore...

In the joint burial, the skeletons of a man and a woman “were found placed in loving embrace posture with a ring in situ on the left ring finger of the female, displaying the desire for eternal love of the couple, and the respect to their love by people who buried them as well,” the researchers...

Gail Omvedt, who died in Kasegaon, Sangli, on Tuesday, was a rare public intellectual who engaged with the theory and praxis of social justice politics. Her writings extended the frontiers of understanding of anti-caste political and spiritual traditions as well as the relation between caste and...

Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, renowned for his wide-ranging, challenging, and thoughtful writing on art, film, and politics, died August 23 at the age of eighty-one. Best known for his unfetteredly fresh takes on giants of thought, including Heidegger, Kant, and Sartre, he wrote extensively on...

Winfield, a professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon, provides examination of “tensions and tactics” of displaying Buddhist visual culture. Professor of Buddhist Studies Pamela Winfield has contributed to “Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition,” edited by Richard Payne and...

Click here to read the full article on SPIN. Author’s note: the names in the article have been changed, the memories have not. According to Forbes, Jimmy Buffett is worth just north of half a billion dollars. All because he wrote a tune while getting shit-faced one afternoon in Austin, Texas...

Released on Ghost Festival, artist Yao Jui-chung’s latest photography collection explores the bizarre dioramas of underworld torture found in Taiwan’s temples By Han Cheung / Staff reporter Yao Jui-chung (姚瑞中) recites a Buddhist sutra each time he visits hell. The grotesque scenes in there...

Washington hasn’t just destabilized a country; it’s potentially created problems across Southeast Asia. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization may be called on to fill the breach. The US pullout from Afghanistan and the chaotic manner in which it has been undertaken looks more like a...

Kabir, a Rohingya refugee, fled his village in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state on August 25, 2017. But this was not the first time he had been forced to flee, nor the first time Myanmar soldiers had burned down his home. Nor is Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where he now lives, the first camp he has...