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26 Nov 2013, 12:43 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Buddhism is generally seen as associated with non-violence and peace. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 12:06 pm by Dorsey
  The law protects not only persons who belong to traditional organized religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, but also non-traditional religions. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 12:09 pm by David Cheifetz
Putting aside my immediate reaction – this being BC – which was to wonder whether the survey respondents thought the pollsters were asking about (BC) Buddism, not Buddhism, I wonder, based on my 7 months of living in Vancouver, how a survey of 2000 "Vancouver-area" residents accurately reflects the views of Canadians generally, let alone the views of BC residents outside of the Vancouver area. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 12:21 pm by Howard Friedman
The denial was based on the inmate's answers to three questions about Buddhism and a vegetarian diet, as well as on his record of food purchases.In Smith-Bey v. [read post]
28 Sep 2013, 2:22 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
”American Indian Law A late draft is available at Turtle Talk as a PDF doc.Analogy and MetaphorAnimal Ethics, Rights, and LawThe Bedouin  Bioethics Buddhism Capital PunishmentChristianity Classical Chinese Worldviews Comparative Law Constitutionalism The Contemporary Arab WorldContemporary Democratic Theory The Corporatization of Higher Education: A Basic Reading ListCriminal Law, Punishment & Prisons Death and DyingDeath & Rebirth in Buddhism: Basic… [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 6:27 am
Are there particular issues for people who delve deeply into meditation but may not have a strong or well-developed connection to Buddhism’s history and theology? [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
 [Buddhist blogger Justin] Whitaker posed this: Are there particular issues for people who delve deeply into meditation, but disconnected from Buddhism’s history and theology? [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 1:48 pm by LindaMBeale
  As the Justice Department points out in connection with the FFRF suit, Buddhism and other systems of philosophy are treated by the government as religions, even though they are non-theistic. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 8:39 am by Vikram Raghavan
In this interesting 1958 decision, the Bombay High Court discusses the legal consequences of Ambedkar's mass conversions to Buddhism. [read post]
27 Jul 2013, 2:15 pm by Buce
  Idle thought: I have a friend who, as part of his study of Buddhism, is learning a bit of Pali (not Sanskrit, he says, too hard). [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 7:05 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
He came to have a nuanced appreciation of Marxian ideas and late in his life converted to Buddhism, writing a book on Buddhist Dhamma that was posthumously published. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 5:40 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
 …Aśoka was critically important for the spread of Buddhism and its social values in the world beyond India. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 6:54 pm
But over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vituperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar — and revealed a darker side of the country’s greater freedoms after decades of military rule. [read post]
31 May 2013, 6:33 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Indeed, other large well organized and dominant religious institutions, institutional Christianity[5] and Buddhism,[6] for example, have also begun to move in similar directions. [read post]
29 May 2013, 9:10 am
"... a sign that radical strains of Buddhism may be spreading to a wider area of the country." [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 4:37 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
“Even those who think that death is a continuation, and not an ending, can benefit from contemplating the implications of annihilation. [read post]