In Western culture, especially among so-called “woke” circles and Hollywood elites, there’s an odd obsession with Buddhism. For many, it’s romanticized as a peaceful, philosophical […]
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Grieving a Dying World(view)
The Death of the Buddha (Parinirvana). “This panel shows the Buddha surrounded by lay and monastic mourners expressing their grief. These reactions are contrasted with […]
The Swastika Is Not What Many People In The West Think It Is
In the 1920s, the Nazis culturally appropriated the age-old symbol of good fortune and turned it into an emblem of Aryan identity and German nationalism […]
Being Buddhist For A Day
Keeping the 10 precepts, and failing Today, February 24, is Poya. A full moon day. Poya is a public holiday in Sri Lanka and you can do […]
When the Chinese Prime Minister was Vietnamese: In the Meritocracy Invented by China, Everyone, Even Foreigners, Had Equal Opportunities. A Sensational New Study Looks at the Tang Dynasty, Which Founded China’s Revolutionary Model of Success that Endures to This Day.
“Chinese can’t innovate” (Harvard Business Review, 2014), they are dumb copycats, and “China is a threat to world peace”, they want to rule the world […]