[ad_1] On the Tibetan Lunar Calendar, Losar — New Year! — falls on March 3, 2022 — which is the year 2149 in the Tibetan calendar. Due to differences in the lunar calendars [note below] the Tibetan calendar is almost 30 days later than the lunar New Year celebrated in...

[ad_1] Dexter Cohen Bohn shares how Buddhist practice can provide a non-violent approach when it comes to law enforcement and policing. Photo by Thomas Hawk. It was mid-August, 1965 and bullets were ricocheting beneath billowing plumes of smoke that hung over a...

[ad_1] “Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.” ~Brené Brown Sitting there watching The Greatest Showman, with tears pouring down my face, I asked myself why does this song, in fact this whole film, make me cry so much? Why does...

[ad_1] Before he got sick, Thich Nhat Hanh urged his followers not to put his ashes in a vase, lock him inside and “limit who I am”. Instead, the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist apparently told them: “If I am anywhere, it is in your mindful...

[ad_1] This tribute was delivered by Thomas Lyons, a diplomat and First Secretary from the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, at Tu Hieu Temple, Jan 28, 2022.Good evening, and thank you for inviting me here and allowing me the honor and privilege of sharing in the memorial...

[ad_1] Committing ourselves to the teachings with faith and devotion is the cornerstone of everything else we would accomplish through the practice of this path— higher rebirth, or a safe direction for all our lives, accomplishing the individual liberation vows, and...

[ad_1] Lisa Ernst shares a practice to get to the root of your difficult thoughts. Photo by Jessica Irani. “Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” -Rilke Last year as the lockdown wore on, I began to have...

[ad_1] “It’s one of the great paradoxes of the human condition—we ask some variation of the question ‘How are you feeling?’ over and over, which would lead one to assume that we attach some importance to it.  And yet we never expect or desire—or provide—an honest...

[ad_1] Following the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, thousands of people fled from the victorious communist forces by sailing to neighbouring countries. When these “boat people” attempted to land in Singapore, the police pushed them back out to sea, where many died.In...

[ad_1] Starting this year, Living Buddhism is highlighting representative SGI-USA members applying Buddhist ideals to their workplaces in different regions of the country. This issue highlights members from Texas. Photo by Michelle Blair David McClure Pickton, Texas...