SGI Vice President Yoshiki Tanigawa gave the following address at the March 4 West Territory Champions of the New Era meeting at El Camino College in Torrance, California. Tu thư Sen Trắng lược dẫn: Phật giáo quan niệm rằng con người có khả năng tạo ra hòa bình và thịnh vượng thế giới thông…
“The Legend of Buddha”, the 2D Animation film by Pentamedia Graphics Ltd, had qualified for contention at Oscar Awards 2005 in the Best Animation Film category. Legend Of Buddha is a wonderful animated movie in Hindi. The journey of how Prince Siddharth Gautama became Buddha, The Enlightened One. The movie features spectacular animation technology to…
Teaching children by example An excerpt from the article “Buddhism in Modern Society” from The Path to Happiness Dharma practice isn’t just coming to the temple; it’s not simply reading a Buddhist scripture or chanting the Buddha’s name. Practice is how we live our lives, how we live with our family, how we work together with…
I would like to share this story to shed light on some difficulties that might be relevant to other people from non-Buddhist cultures. It is very unusual in my country for young people to involve themselves in eastern religions, much less put them into practice. The first visible effect Buddhism had on me was when I stopped eating meat at…
Researching Young Buddhists Studying Young Buddhists This book focuses on 44 individuals in total who either identified exclusively as Buddhist (31), or who incorporated Buddhism as part of their religious identity, such as ‘Buddhist-Christian’ (13). The Appendix details all the participants featured. Following Tweed (1999), we used self-identification with Buddhism as the recruitment criterion, without…
Dr. Arvind Kumar Singh Head & Assistant Professor School of Buddhist Studies and Civilization Gautam Buddha University, INDIA Email: arvindbantu@yahoo.co.in & arvinds@gbu.ac.in Abstract This paper focus is on how we can empower youth through Buddhist education. It looks at the some of the environmental factors and external pressures that the youth of today are…
Photo by USAG- Humphreys, Mary Kim http://tricy.cl/2dBE10b Mary Talbot introduces Tricycle’s special section, “Bringing Up Buddhists.” Of all the thousands of the Buddha’s teachings, he directed a very few—three or four, depending on what you count—specifically to children. Considering the multitude and breadth of his suttas, it’s hard to imagine why more weren’t geared to…
Photo: GDPT Ngoc Nhien Young Buddhists: Locating Difference The basis for this book comes from a major project undertaken between 2009 and 2011 in the uk entitled Religion, Youth and Sexuality: A Multi-faith Explora- tion. This study encompasses young adults aged between 18 and 25 from six dif- ferent religious traditions (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism,…
Series: International Studies in Religion and Society, Volume: 28 Series edited by: Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa) | Peter Beyer (University of Ottawa) Advisory Board: Afe Adogame (University of Edinburgh) | Elizabeth Coleman (Monash University) Lene Kühle (Aarhus University) | Mary Jo Neitz (University of Missouri) | Linda Woodhead (University of Lancaster) There is currently…
Since the day man appeared on this earth, under some form, by natural instinct, he or she has conducted his or her living in two identifiable manifestations, spiritual and material. Though this life could be viewed differently by a philosopher, by a the-o-lo-gist, and this one must differ from a politician’s, a psychoanalyst’s etc. Anyway,…