Cairn and flag to celebrate my private ordination, June 10, 2005. (Cairn ~ 1.5m). In the hills above the Guhyaloka Retreat Centre , Spa...

Clipart ETC I' VE ARGUED IN THE PAST that the problem of suffering, especially as conceived of by Buddhists and experienced in th...

L AST WEEK I DWELT in some detail on the negative criteria in the Kālāma Sutta - trying to tease out the intended meaning of the terms in...

A lot of the Buddha's biography seems to be in the form of psycho-drama. His internal processes get acted out, and the 'players'...

I wrote last week about Philology and the idea that a text has one true reading over and above the multitude readings that individuals with ...

Antiochus and Stratonice I first came across this story from the vinaya (Vin i.301) and Sangharakshita's book A Guide to the Budd...

Some years ago Sangharakshita remarked that he could not find a word in any European language to describe the kind of sangha or spiritual co...