Posts Tagged ‘Engaged Buddhism’
A Silent Sage on the State of the World
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet takes many of the greatest hits of Nhat Hanh and presents them as a single, running discourse on the perilous state of the world and how the Vietnamese Zen sect of Buddhism with which Nhat Hanh is affiliated — especially the socially active brand of “engaged Buddhism” he made popular in both the East and West — offers a viable road out of this human-created morass.
Read MoreThe Dharma of the Rings: A Buddhist Interpretation of the Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings as a modern Buddhist myth? Not very plausible, on the face of it.
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