Category: Buddhist Wisdom
What is the Gohonzon?
In Nichiren Shu Buddhism, the gohonzon is a calligraphic scroll that can guide Buddhist practitioners toward enlightenment.
Review: Matters of Vital Interest
We review "Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen" by Eric Lerner.
Beyond the Upper Middle Way
Convert Buddhism has a class problem: it appeals mostly to a narrow demographic of well-off college graduates. Buddhist scholar Ann Gleig offers some class consciousness to help Buddhism drop the barriers and benefit many more people.
Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: The Importance of Diversity
In the second issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at the importance of diversity in the development of modern Buddhism.
Review: In Love with the World
Lion's Roar reviews "In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying."
Free at Last
Rima Vesely-Flad reports on Deep Time Liberation, a retreat that takes African American meditators into the heart of slavery’s past so they can free themselves from its legacy of trauma.
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2019
Daigengna Duoer reviews "Love on Every Breath" by Lama Palden Drolma, "Green Buddhism" by Stephanie Kaza, "Just Enough" by Gesshin Greenwood, and more.
The Path We Walk as Women
In the commentary to the Fall 2019 special women’s issue of Buddhadharma, Jan Willis reminds us of the powerful role of women in Buddhism, historically and today.
The Sakyadhita Movement
Judith Hertog profiles the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women, which has been leading the way for gender equality in Buddhism for more than thirty years.
Inside the Fall 2019 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly
The Fall 2019 issue of Buddhadharma is a special women’s issue highlighting and celebrating women’s enormous contribution to the dharma.