Article: Relating the traditional to the new age

Structural violence and spirituality: socially engaged Buddhist ...
ReVision;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... violence is at the core of engaged Buddhism. Sulak Sivaraksa: Before talking about structural ... let me give some background about Buddhism and traditional Buddhist societies in Southeast Asia. Buddhism teaches the elimination of violence ...

Engaged Buddhism: selections from the speeches & writings of ...
Social Policy;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Sulak Sivaraksa of Bangkok, Thailand (or Siam, the ... contemporary exponents of socially engaged Buddhism. Now sixty-eight years old, he has ... Thailand since 1932. BEGIN WITH THE SELF Buddhism teaches us that the transformation of ...

Article: Spirituality and security: Joanna Macy, Sulak ...
Whole Earth;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... In Buddhist history, this movement into the heart of the world is associated with the bodhisattva. In early, Theravada Buddhism the term bodhisattva refers to the earlier lives of Gotama the Buddha. He had lots of them, and in each he practiced and ...

Article: Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism In A ...
Buddhist-Christian Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ENGAGED BUDDHISM IN A GLOBALIZING ... WORLD. By Sulak Sivaraksa. Boston ... 145 pp. Sulak Sivaraksa's Conflict ... of Engaged Buddhism. The book ... responsible Buddhism. Though ... Dalai Lama, Sulak Sivaraksa's contributions ...

Article: BUDDHISM WITH A LITTLE 'B': A PERSONAL BRAND OF RELIGION
The Nation (Thailand);  August 11, 1997 ;     700+ words ...SULAK SIVARAKSA The Nation (Thailand) 08 ... the mainstream tradition in Buddhism I use a capital ''B"; for my own personal brand of buddhism I use a small ''b". I ... thou business.) Mainstream Buddhism, like most mainstreams ...

Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience.(Book Review)
Philosophy East and West;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Experience of Buddhism," "Modern Buddhism in Asia," and "Buddhism in the West." Also included ... Dharma Master Sheng Yen, and Sulak Sivaraksa; Western Buddhist teachers ... bring to lire the practice of Buddhism from various inside perspectives ...

Article: NEW TRADITIONS: Crisis of values takes root as the essence of ...
The Nation (Thailand);  March 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ...SULAK SIVARAKSA The Nation (Thailand) 03-29-1999 Buddhism teaches that all sentient beings have the capacity for enlightenment. Defilements of consciousness -- greed, anger and delusion ...