Richard
Richard  ·  3 weeks ago

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Lao Socialism with Buddhist Characteristics

https://monthlyreview.org/2025/04/01/lao-socialism-with-buddhist-characteristics/

Through the doctrine of karma, it encourages a prudent approach to natural resource use and discourages greed and overexploitation. This ecological ethic has shaped Lao environmental policies and practices, fostering the integration of 'green growth' principles into national development strategies.

#Ideology#Marxism#Movements#Socialism#Asia#China #laos#SoutheastAsia#Buddhism

EngagedPureLand
EngagedPureLand  ·  3 weeks ago

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BREAKING: DOGE has cancelled promised funding for the upcoming NEH Summer Institute "Buddhist Perspectives on the Natural World in an Age of Global Climate Change." This two-week intensive program was bringing 25 educators to Berkeley in order to learn from a dozen top scholars and practitioners of eco-Buddhism, including David Loy, Dekila Chungyalpa, and Natalie Avalos.
#Buddhism #engagedbuddhism#DOGE #Environment #ecology #sustainability #buddhist#NEH
https://www.mangalamresearch.org/summer-institute-2025/
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
Will Tuladhar-Douglas  ·  last month

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The Hindu nationalist government in India is happy to use Buddhists and Buddhist pilgrimage as a diplomatic tool internationally, but they will not allow Buddhists to control their own holiest site.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/24/buddhisms-holiest-site-erupts-in-protests-over-hindu-control-of-shrine

There is a long history behind this - for anyone who is interested, I would suggest reading Verardi's _The Gods and the Heretics_. Raj and Indian textbooks blame the destruction of Buddhist monasteries in South Asia on Muslims, but the archaeological evidence suggests it was Shaiva and Vaishnava orders.

#Buddhism#BodhGaya

Bhante Subharo
Bhante Subharo  ·  last month

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Something that's been concerning me for a long time is how people don't want to leave social media platforms, even when they turn more toxic. The term these days is "enshittified".

I, for one, really appreciate #Mastodon for allowing one the ability to migrate from one instance to another, thereby not losing one's ever-so-precious "social graph".

Another interesting example of not losing one's "Social Graph" (in a migration from one server to another) is #Deltachat, which uses "AEAP" ("Advanced Email Address Porting").

I think these awesome migration features should be praised more. Taking such control back, over one's social graph is no small victory these days. Such ease of migration is a bulwark against enshittification; it's the easy ability to more elsewhere.

Note: #Buddhism has a comparable tradition of such protection through migration: once monks and nuns gain their "independence", they are much more free to wander from one monastery to the next.

notes
notes  ·  2 months ago

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I Vow Not to Burn Out

"In my world, there always seems to be way too much to do, along with too much suffering and societal corruption and not enough spaces of deep rest and regeneration." #MushimPatriciaIkedahttps://www.lionsroar.com/i-vow-not-to-burn-out/
#Dharma#Buddhism #BelovedCommunity #Interbeing#Mindfulness#Meditation#EngagedBuddhism#RecoveryDharma#SanghaInTheStreets#BuddhaGang
@dharma @belovedcommunity @engagedbuddhism
@recoverydharma @sanghainthestreets @buddhagang

Iggyu.museifu
Iggyu.museifu  ·  3 months ago

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I also keep forgetting, if you are an archivist (particulary of japanese stuff) or good sleuth i'd love help finding digital copies of the early copies of the Heimin Shinbun newspaper. (平民新聞). From 1903-1905 specifically. #buddhism #japanese #日本語 #anarchism much love❤️! Uchiyama Gudo was known to contribute from time to time and I just cant find any. Please and thank you!
Iggyu.museifu
Iggyu.museifu  ·  3 months ago

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Newest translation! This is another Ichikawa Hakugen piece (it will be him for awhile) expanding on another piece I have yet to acquire, delving into the nature of 自由 (freedom) in both zen contexts and the socialist movement at large. Much love❤️!
#socialism #anarchism #buddhism #zen #translation #philosophy

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ichikawa-hakugen-universal-suffering#toc5

Mycotropic
Mycotropic  ·  3 months ago

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Does anyone have a recommendation for a good book/podcast/history of how #Buddhism and Ancient #Rome interacted? I was doing the Chrono today https://chrono.quest/ and one of the dates was the death of #Buddha which fell pretty early in the span of the Roman Republic, before #Alexander on the Greek side so; early! It never occurred to me that they had to have interacted since eventually Buddhist regions were the eastern border of the Roman empire.

I dug into Wiki and read that summary, #Strabo, the Pompeii Lakshmi ivory statuette and some stuff on the possible influence of Buddhism on the interaction between Rome and early Christians.

I'd like a more, I don't know, technical history of that interaction though, any thoughts?
#Historystodon #History

Guido Stevens
Guido Stevens  ·  3 months ago

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Outrage is the currency of the right. It's justified and probably even necessary to feel outrage. But our ability to hold outrage from a bigger space of kindness, is the measure of effectiveness of our resistance. It's how you disempower the trolls.

I know it sounds inane. I never thought I'd say this. But in this world, walking around with an open heart, and smiling at strangers, are acts of subversion.

That doesn't mean being a pushover. It means protecting softness, confronting evil, yet trying to not harden while doing so. And to have compassion for all the moments in which we try, yet fail to do so.

The alternative is: feeding the flames of rage. And get burnt doing so.

#buddhism #nonviolence

Iggyu.museifu
Iggyu.museifu  ·  3 months ago

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Another one I did! A short essay by Ichikawa Hakugen on the status of Intellectuals in Zen and Socialist organizing more broadly. He was a Rinzai priest and philosophy professor who survived WWII era repression and wrote feverishly until his death in 1986, castigating fascist Buddhism and the old Imperial system, among other things.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ichikawa-hakugen-intellectuals-and-zen

#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

Iggyu.museifu
Iggyu.museifu  ·  3 months ago

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First one I completed a while back. Prison writings of one Uchiyama Gudo. Soto Zen priest and active anarchist organizer around during the Meiji Period. He distributed food from the temple he ran, ran an underground printing press and encouraged peasant unionism and taught children how to read. He was imprisoned and later executed by the government for his radical views.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/uchiyama-gudo-thoughts-during-imprisonment

#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

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