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Whether you’ve been practicing for two years or twenty, Buddhadharma is your ideal source for deepening your understanding of and connection to Buddhism. Buddhadharma is a project of Lion's Roar, found at https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhadharma/

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 18h ago

A group of Buddhist teachers and supporters has organized to help the Uganda Buddhist Centre secure a piece of land they say could determine its future, and protect a fragile ecosystem on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Uganda Buddhist Centre seeks to save wetland, build Africa's first dedicated retreat center

As Bhante Buddharakkhita's Uganda Buddhist Centre marks 20 years, supporters worldwide are mobilizing to save a threatened wetland and build the continent's first retreat center built solely to share ...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Equanimity is not what good Buddhists achieve. It is what any sentient system achieves when it stops adding distortion to its registration of reality. Equanimity then is simply what health looks like."

Equanimity Is Not Detachment

Nichiren Buddhist teacher Mark Herrick argues that equanimity isn't stoic composure — it's homeostasis, the same balancing function that lets a single cell survive change.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · last mo.

"Who wrote this? That question stays open. But the deeper question Buddhism is asking is this: through this, what conditions are being created, what relationships sustained, what direction set?"

Who Wrote This? On Buddhism & Agency in the Age of AI

When AI writes your emails, edits your prose, and ​s​o on, where does "you" end? Hajeong Park finds that Buddhism has been sitting with this question for centuries — and that its answer, rooted in non...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · last mo.

"What struck me later was not the anger itself, but how quickly it had appeared. Thirty days of silence and meditation had not erased the old patterns. Awareness had become stronger, certainly. But wisdom had not fully learned how to meet unpredictability and difficulty with equanimity."

The Taxi Was the Teacher

Thirty days of silent retreat didn't prevent a flare of anger when a driver failed to show. The Buddha's Simile of the Cook explains why — and what to do about it.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"By cultivating an awareness of the subtle body, we can synchronize mind and body, anchor ourselves in the present moment, and skillfully work with the natural flow of energy to promote balance and well-being."

Ground Yourself from the Inside Out

Working with the subtle body's inner wind can calm restlessness, restore emotional balance, and anchor you in the present — here's a practice to begin.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Nichiren Shonin’s attitudes toward women were based on the Lotus Sutra and reflected his understanding of the Buddha’s teachings on equality, not the standards of medieval times."

Nichiren Shonin: A Teacher of Equality

Based on letters Nichiren Shonin wrote to his female followers, Myokei Caine-Barrett explains why the thirteenth-century champion of the Lotus Sutra was a practical feminist.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"International commentary on Myanmar’s Buddhist monastic community often relies on a simplistic binary... The legacy of Shwe Nya War Sayadaw shatters this, demonstrating an inclusive Buddhist nationalism that resisted military tyranny while championing Muslims as citizens rather than scapegoats."

Remembering Venerable Shwe Nya War and his Work for Democracy

Political-activist monk Venerable Shwe Nya War Sayadaw, who died in July 2025 after years of imprisonment under Myanmar's military junta, embodied a form of Buddhist nationalism that championed democr...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Robert A.F. Thurman, Buddhist scholar, activist, teacher, and co-founder of Tibet House US died on Tuesday at 84. In this profile from our archives, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong shares his story. We share our sympathies to all who were touched by his presence and work.

Remembering Robert A.F. Thurman (1941-2026)

Robert A.F. Thurman, renowned Buddhist scholar, activist, teacher, and co-founder of Tibet House US died on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 in Woodstock, New York. He was 84. In this profile from our archives,...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

”What i​f Sakka was sitting across the breakfast table from his partner of eight years, ragged from not sleeping, almost late to work, as their three-year-old and their infant threw a collaborative screaming fit?​ Would Sakka be quite so calm?​”

Khanti, or Patience, as Relational Practice

Khanti is one of the parami, and an antidote to anger. How can we bring it to bear in our relationships — meeting conflict, hurt, and intensity directly — without flinching, shutting down, or acting o...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Via San Francisco Zen Center: "SFZC learned on Friday, May 29, that the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has arrested and filed charges against an individual suspected of involvement with the March 26 zendo fire. This person is not a resident of Tassajara or a member of the sangha.”"

Arson suspected in Tassajara zendo destruction; Suspect arrested

No one had been injured but the zendo was completely lost to the late-March fire, as well as some of the library.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"By the end of the training, I had experienced a fundamental reorientation. I felt like a beginner in the best sense, like I met the best version of myself during those eleven days. The training stripped away all the ways I might try to hide."

Why I Ordained — And What It Was Like

Rev. Dr. Aaron Shōken Proffitt shares his experience of tokudo shurai — the ordination training for priests in the Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha — and learns that "everything is tokudo."

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The hall gently awakens with smiles of greeting and quiet interchange ...Taking our seats, we commence a communal endeavor for nine days — performing the Avalokiteshvara Drupchen — to bring a mandala (sacred universe) brimming with compassion into being by every creative means possible. "

Great Compassion Takes Form

Karen Greenspan takes us to Kathmandu to witness the immersive, nine-day Avalokiteshvara Drupchen ceremony. Featuring photos courtesy of the Drukpa Nuns and photos and video by the author.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I sat down on my prostration board. I wasn’t separate from this silent wholeness. I couldn’t be. Nothing was needed. Nothing was missing. Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. I was simply home." From "Girl In A Box."

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times

In this excerpt from Girl in a Box: Seeking Enlightenment as a Tibetan Buddhist Nun (Monkfish), Paldrom Catharine Collins discovers that sometimes it’s bad times that lead to big breakthroughs.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We at Lion’s Roar thank ACLS — which this year celebrates 100 years of grantmaking to individual scholars — and The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies.

Lion’s Roar among 2026 Awardees of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

This year’s awardees include four Buddhism Public Scholars, nine dissertation Fellows, five Early Career Research Fellows, a new professorship grant of $300,000, and six Public Impact Grants to be ann...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Letting go of the habitual thought patterns that sustain the illusion of an autonomous self can lead to the most important realization of all: that we are not separate from each other, or from the earth, but are part of a biosphere that continues to nurture us." From Loy's just-released book.

Is This the Spiritual Awakening that We Seek?

In the introduction from his new book, Loving the World as Our Body: The Nondual Path in a Dangerous Time, David R. Loy asks us to consider what we could have learned from our religions, and how we mi...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The Ekayana, the One Vehicle, is not a modern compromise or a Western invention. It is the oldest claim in Mahayana Buddhism: that all vehicles, rightly understood, are one. And that no sincere practitioner should be made to feel guilty for the practice that brought them home."

A Bigger Umbrella

Rev. José M. Tirado on working with the spiritual longing “for the complete thing, the practice that would hold all of me, the teacher who would see everything I was bringing and say: yes, this too be...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The translation nonprofit 84000 has relaunched its website with a redesigned platform centered on making the Tibetan Buddhist canon more accessible to a wider range of readers — from first-time explorers to advanced scholars.

84000 opens new gateway to the Tibetan Buddhist canon

At the heart of the new site is an open-access library of thousands of canonical texts, organized according to traditional categories and searchable by topic.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last month we shot a new online course with Gaylon Ferguson, all about the universal takeaways from the famed Buddhist text, The Way of Awakening, by Shantideva. Get to know this wonderful dharma teacher here, in his own words.

Video: Getting to know Gaylon Ferguson, teacher of our new course “Awakening the Boundless Heart” | Lion’s Roar

In this short Q&A, dharma teacher Gaylon Ferguson shares the story of his journey toward becoming a dharma teacher, professor, and author.

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The question before us today is not whether AI is compatible with the dharma. The question is whether we have the wisdom and the courage to shape how it is used."

A.I., Yogacara, and the Mind That Was Never Only Ours

AI, writes Rev. Mauricio Hondaku, is not a threat to the dharma, but "a new surface on which the dharma can write itself, provided we bring to its design the same care, depth, and intentionality that ...

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Buddhadharma: Deepen Your Practice & Study of Buddhism@buddhadharma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The site was chosen because Zion, IL is where the Karmapa passed away at the Cancer Treatment Center of America on November 5, 1981. It is intended as a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and a sacred space for everyone; dedicated to cultivating kindness, peace, understanding and compassion.

Karmapa Center 16 to hold July consecration ceremony and teaching

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will lead the ceremony and offer a free public teaching on Guru Rinpoche on Saturday, July 25. These events will take place both onsite at the Center and broadcast live online...

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