Challenging Times: Stories of Buddhist Practice When Things Get Tough Edited by Vishvapani Available from the Windhorse online store, £10.99 Interview on the Windhorse Publications Blog How would you introduce ‘Challenging Times’ to those...
One of the most surprising groups in western Buddhism are the Roma (‘gypsy’) Buddhists of Hungary. The link is Dr Ambedkar, the leader who inspired tens of millions of India’s dalits to adopt Buddhism. A group of Romas locate their community’...
In 1975 when Helena Norberg-Hodge first met her friend Tsewang Paljor in a Ladakhi village, Tsewang told her, ‘We don’t have any poverty here.’ That was before this the remote Himalayan region – politically part of India but culturally part of the old Tibetan Buddhist...
The future is bright … but is it saffron? What is the Future of Buddhism in the West? I recently enjoyed listening to a 30-minute discussion on Buddhism in the West on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Beyond Belief’. It was a good programme and as it happens two of the three...
The Cambodian Buddhist leader and peace activist Maha Ghosananda led the restoration of Buddhism in his homeland following the killing by the Khmer Rouge between 1976 and 1979 of all but 3,000 of the country’s 60,000 Buddhist monks. Despite losing his entire...
