For the last decade or so, my exploration of Buddhist ideas generally has been overtaken by intensive study of the Heart Sutra . My focus h...

Historians of Buddhism face a difficult task, since the further we go back in time the sketchier the evidence of Buddhism is. Before about ...

Ira Block/National Geographic In recent days, there has been quite a disturbance in the force following the publication, in the archaeo...

My text today is the Mūlaka or Roots Discourse, a short sutta from the Aṅguttara Nikāya. [1] In it the Buddha advises his bhikkhus what to s...

The average Buddhist reader has a naive approach to Buddhist texts. At worst we take them at face value as being what the texts themselves ...