“When you are not the Dalai Lama—that is, not an incarnation of a bodhisattva (or even a...
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‘On Homosexuality and Sex in General’ (1997)
On August 27, 1997 the World Tibet Network News (WTN) run by the Canada Tibet Committee published a...
‘The Buddhist and the Buddhologist’ (1995)
The Summer 1995 issue of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review contained the article ‘The Buddhist...
‘Pico Iyer on the Dalai Lama’s Views on...
In an interview with Rev. Alan Jones in 2008, while talking about the Dalai Lama’s...
‘”According to Buddhist Tradition”: Gays...
In the March 1998 issue of Shambhala Sun, Steve Peskind looked back on his meeting with the Dalai...
‘Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism’ (2017)
In the introduction to his Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (2017), José Cabezón...
‘Dalai Lama Lite’ (2003)
In 2003, author Patrick French of Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land (2004) published...
‘A Dalai Lama Update’ (2001)
On May 24, 2001, Steve Peskind († 2004) wrote a guest opinion for the Bay Area Reporter in which...
‘Dalai Lama urges “full human rights for all,”...
On June 19, 1996, Dennis Conkin reported in the Bay Area Reporter on the recent meeting between the...
‘A Respectful Request to His Holiness the Dalai...
In January 1997, Steve Peskind († 2004) published an open letter to the fourteenth Dalai Lama...
‘Queer Dharma’ (1998)
In 1998, the book Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists was published. It contained an interview...
‘The Way To Freedom’ (1994)
In 1994, the Dalai Lama reiterated the view on homosexuality and sexual acts he had deemed improper...
‘Sex, Power, And Buddha Nature’ (1991)
In 1990, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship hosted a ‘town meeting’ in Berkeley, California...
‘Homosexuality and Buddhism’ (1993)
In 1993, José Cabezón published his essay ‘Homosexuality and Buddhism.’ About the...
‘Westerners Are Too Self-Absorbed’ (2006)
On April 1, 2006, the Daily Telegraph published Alice Thomson’s interview with the Dalai...
‘A Message of Peace’ (2004)
During his visit to Canada in 2004, Vancouver Sun reporter Douglas Todd asked the Dalai Lama about...
‘Hello, Dalai’ (1994)
During an interview for the February-March 1994 issue of OUT magazine, Scott Hunt asked the Dalai...
‘Getting to the Heart and Soul of Matter in Tibet’...
In 1987, the Los Angeles Times published a preliminary report on the first so-called Mind &...
‘What Are Improper Sexual Attitudes?’ (1993)
During his visit to France from October 24th to November 16th, 1993, shortly after his meeting with...
‘Refraining From Wrong Conduct in Sexual Desires’...
In 1968, the fourteenth Dalai Lama published the English translation of his first self-penned...
Pacifist Between Wars
In Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India (2020), Shakti Sinha wrote about the Dalai Lama’s...
‘The Lion of Dharma’ (1989)
Barry Miles’ voluminous Ginsberg: A Biography (1989) contains an extensive discussion of the...
‘The Dharamsala Conference’ (1993)
Bodhin Kjolhede’s report in a “special supplement” of Zen Bow provides additional...
‘The Ethical Outlook of American Zen Students’ (1982)
In 1982, Steven Tipton published Getting Saved From The Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and...
‘The Spiritual Seeker’s Dilemma’ (1987)
In their introduction ‘The Spiritual Seeker’s Dilemma’ to Spiritual Choices: The...
‘The Demise of the Lamaist State’ (1989)
Melvyn Goldstein’s A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State...
‘The Lion of Dharma’ (1992)
In chapters 23 and 24 of Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher presents a...
‘The Prowling Tiger Of Crazy Wisdom’ (1991)
In the first edition of Holy Madness: The Shock-Tactic and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts...
‘Requiem For A Faith’ (1973)
The documentary film ‘Requiem for a Faith: Tibetan Buddhism’ (1973), mostly shot in...
‘The Living Gods and the Hidden Curriculum’ (1993)
In 1993, Peter Bishop published Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western Imagination. In...
‘The Buddhist Experience in America’ (2004)
In 2004, Diane Morgan published a textbook with her survey presentation of Buddhism in America in...
‘Eastern Cults and Western Culture’ (1977)
In 1977, the year he published Turning East: The Promise and Peril of the New Orientalism, Harvey...
‘The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering’ (1997)
In 1992, Tashi Tsering (1929-2014) began a collaboration with Tibetologist Melvyn Goldstein that...
‘A Study of the Ldab ldob’ (1964)
Based on interviews held with Tibetan informants living in Seattle from February to August 1963...
‘Further Thoughts on “The Open Letter”‘...
After he published his report on the meeting between the Dalai Lama and Western Buddhist teachers...
‘Towards a Western Buddhism’ (1993)
In 1993, Dharmachari Kulananda of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order reported in its...
‘Safe Harbor’ (1998)
In 1998, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship published Safe Harbor: Guidelines, Process, and Resources...
‘The Voice in the Closet’ (1994)
In 1994, Stephen Butterfield examined his response to the events that were caused by his Tibetan...
‘Helping The Iron Bird Fly’ (1998)
In 1998, for the first time, Rita Gross looked back on the abuse by Buddhist teachers exposed...
A Force For Good
Episode two of the second season of the HBO-series The Vow—which focuses on the criminal trial...
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ (1993)
In 1993, Jack Kornfield published The Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of...
‘The Elephant in the Meditation Hall’ (1990)
When Katy Butler’s long essay ‘Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America’ was...
‘American Buddhism’ (1979)
In 1979, Charles Prebish published American Buddhism. The book provides a general introduction to...
‘Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds’ (1979)
In 1978, some three years after the violent assault on William Merwin and Dana Naone, the Italian...
‘Buddha-gate Revisited’ (1979)
In 1979, Sam Spaed responded to Robert Woods’ exposé about Chögyam Trungpa in the Berkeley...
‘A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan’ (1980)
In 2014, Shambhala published a decades-old manuscript written by Thinley Norbu († 2011). Norbu...
‘The Changing Perception of Women in Buddhism’ (1988)
The Tibetan Lama Dagyab Rinpoche has lived in Germany since the late 1960s. Between 1966 and 2004...
‘News That Stayed News’ (1986)
In 1986, Katy Butler’s essay ‘Events Are The Teacher‘ was reprinted in News That...
Secrecy Is Credulity’s Catalyst
Once I viewed some upper caste Tibetan Lamas as exiled monarchs and consummate players performing...
‘When The Teacher Fails’ (1989)
In May 1989, Stephen Butterfield published his response to the then recent exposés of the abuse by...