The website serves as a hub where Buddhist educators can access and share lesson plans, articles, videos, teachings, and practices. Middle Way Education has launched a new website to allow institutions and individuals involved in education to share their curricula, knowledge, experience, and resources. Middle Way Education (MWE), a nonprofit organization founded in 2017 [...]
Harvard University offers free online course examining Buddhist scriptures
Harvard University's free interactive course "Buddhism Through Its Scriptures" begins today on their online learning platform. "Buddhism Through Its Scriptures" is the third module of the HarvardX series "World Religions through their Scriptures." The course is taught by Charles Hallisey, the Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at the Harvard Divinity [...]
Third Buddhism and Race Conference to take place at Harvard, March 3-5
On Friday, March 3rd through Sunday March 5th, 2017, Harvard Buddhist Community at Harvard Divinity School will be hosting its Third Buddhism and Race Conference. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based conference "started two years ago as a forum to address issues surrounding race and racism within the Buddhist community. This year activists, sangha leaders, community members, [...]
The Sex Talk
Artist Rima Fujita helps teach Tibetan kids the facts of life. Just like youth in the West, Tibetans are having sex at an increasingly early age. Never having received sex education in school, many of them are getting pregnant and contracting STDs. When the Tibetan government-in exile resolved to tackle this issue, they held a writing contest at Tibetan refugee schools, and [...]
Dalai Lama: Buddhist centers should be academic classrooms, places of interreligious dialogue
Earlier this week the Dalai Lama called on Buddhist centers to host academic pursuits and interreligious dialogue. According to The Tibet Post, the Tibetan spiritual leader made the appeal to a group of about 300 people who gathered at Deer Park Buddhist Center in Wisconsin on March 6, 2016 to hear him speak. “It would be better if [Buddhist centers] were not only temples [...]
Practicing Loving-Kindness in the Face of Danger
When “Luis” came in, something about his movements put everyone in my classroom on high alert. We had good reason to be scared: a month earlier, a student had had her throat slit right in front of the principal’s office. Random violence was no longer something that happened elsewhere. The feeling I had then was, I think, the feeling our nation has now. Violence seems [...]
Educating the Heart
Teaching young people about compassion is one of the most important things we can do for them, says the Dalai Lama, and for the future of humanity. In this article from 2007, Melvin McLeod reports from Vancouver, where His Holiness talked with students and education experts about schooling for the heart as well as for the mind. The good citizen. The good worker. The good [...]
Buddhist fraternity and sorority to open at San Diego State University
San Diego State University may be the first campus in the USA to open a Buddhist Greek letter organization. The fraternity, Delta Beta Tau, and sorority, Delta Beta Theta, are the brainchild of Jeff Zlotnik, co-founder of the Dharma Bum Buddhist Temple in San Diego, and Abby Cervantes, a student of the temple. For six years the temple has been offering free "Introduction to [...]
Should the swastika be banned, or reclaimed?
The swastika: it's known to many people as a symbol of peace. But its appropriation as a Nazi symbol has of resulted in it symbolizing, to many more, quite the opposite. And now its usage will be hotly debated at George Washington University. ValueWalk.com reports that a Jewish student at the school was suspended when he posted a Sanskrit swastika, which he'd purchased on a [...]
University of Arizona launches Buddhism Studies minor
The University of Arizona has announced that it will launch a Buddhism Studies minor this fall. The minor will include courses in Asian Religions, Religion in Japan and in India, Zen Buddhism, Buddhist meditation traditions, and the history of East Asian Buddhism. "Much, if not most, of the Asian world is Buddhist, or has Buddhist traditions, and Buddhism is a large [...]
