Part 2: Studies of Sexual Exploitation in Buddhist Communities From the Editor of Engage!, Shaun Bartone: Jack Kornfield conducted a survey of dharma teachers* in the mid 80s (published in Yoga Journal 1985) which showed that 63% of all Buddhist teachers surveyed (celibate and non-celibate) had sexual contact with their students, and over 85% of non-celibate Buddhist… Read More Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities: Part 2

[Engage! is proud to introduce a new contributor to the blog, Alycee Lane—Editor.] When hate is so “murderously sweet” by Alycee Lane After the release of a video that showed members of the University of Oklahoma chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) on a bus chanting “There will never be a nigger in SAE./There will never… Read More Practicing Compassion When Hate Is So “Murderously Sweet”

I was asked to be part of a vocal piece staged at the NSCAD Academy building for their student show: No End of Insight. It was a 2-hour piece; three of us were stationed at landings on the central staircase. At first I doubted whether I could do vocal improv for two hours straight. As… Read More No End of Insight: Performance Art as Awakening

[Editor: this post was written in response to an online retreat by David Loy for Tricycle magazine, going through his thesis in “The New Bodhisattva Path”. I wanted to reproduce it here before I lost it completely. I love David Loy’s work and find great merit in most of what he teaches. However, I disagree with… Read More Evolutionary Diversity and Self-organizing systems

Buddhist Peace Fellowship board member Funie Hsu hopped on the phone with Arun, cultural critic and creator of the Angry Asian Buddhist blog phenomenon (blognomenon!), to ask him about Orientalism, racism, representation, and other causes and conditions for all the anger. http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/bpf-and-the-angry-asian-buddhist/ Asian Buddhist writers are 3 times less likely than white Buddhists to appear in major Western Buddhist… Read More BPF Interview with Arun, the Angry Asian Buddhist

Ambedkar Jayanti What’s New this YearAs per the media, there is a planning to decorate the constructed Ambedkar’s memorial in the Mumbai which would be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 14th of April 2015. A yearlong celebration programme would be launched (during rally at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, means birth place of B R… Read More Ambedkar Jayati: Baba Saheb’s 124th Birthday April 14 Jai Bhim!