The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government
By Michael Lind Jun 23, 2009
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A heartbroken monk looks for his lost master among 2-year-olds. Plus: Bisexuality, rediscovered yet again!
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 6, 2009
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Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible.
By Laura Miller
March 27, 2009
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Buddhism without parole, in Alabama's darkest prison. Plus: Hot housewife seeks Asian stud, physics geek goes nutzoid and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 11, 2008
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Chinese pop star Sa Dingding has big plans for taking her blend of Tibetan Buddhism and world music international. Is now the right time?
By Andrew Leonard
April 2, 2008
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He may be a global icon of goodness, as Pico Iyer's biography reminds us. But is the Dalai Lama the political leader Tibet needs?
By Louis Bayard
March 25, 2008
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To attract a new generation of Buddhists, two teachers are replacing the old hippie trappings with a tattooed aesthetic and references to Jay-Z.
By Whitney Joiner
February 20, 2008
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How did Buddha get from India to China? And what does a 97-year-old translator in Beijing have to do with it?
By Andrew Leonard
January 29, 2008
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Thousands of Buddhist monks have hit the streets in Myanmar, deploying some shrewd political jujitsu against the corrupt, iron-fisted junta.
By Jürgen Kremb
September 26, 2007
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The author and Buddhist responds to readers who called him anti-science and challenged his belief in reincarnation.
By B. Alan Wallace
December 9, 2006
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Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
By Steve Paulson
November 27, 2006
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How can I reconcile my beliefs with the necessities of research?
By Cary Tennis
August 14, 2006
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Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," on why religious moderates are worse than fundamentalists, 9/11 led us into a deranged holy war, and believers should be treated like alien-abduction kooks.
By Steve Paulson
July 7, 2006
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Can a Zen Buddhist sage teach us something about the art of counterterrorism?
By Matt Steinglass
November 15, 2005
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Inside Buddhist and Muslim temples, I discover how Sri Lankans are coping spiritually with the disaster. Nothing has been more moving during my entire trip.
By Jeff Greenwald
January 28, 2005
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Noah Levine rejected the spiritual path of his father, Stephen, and then, many tattoos later, joined him.
By Sean Elder
November 19, 2002
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For 12 years, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo meditated alone in a tiny cave in Tibet. Now she wants to elevate the status of other Buddhist women, believed to be reincarnated as females as punishment for past mistakes.
By Janelle Brown
September 30, 2002
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A book about Buddhism and psychedelics asks whether it's best, when seeking higher consciousness, to take the stairs or the elevator.
By Douglas Cruickshank
July 11, 2002
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A former Catholic nun's short biography of the Buddha explains the elusive Eastern sage in terms that even drama-hungry Westerners can understand.
By Laura Miller
April 18, 2001
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Afghanistan's roving ambassador tells a Southern California student association why he was ready to "blow a statue" himself.
By Carina Chocano
March 22, 2001
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American converts are taking a 2,500-year-old faith and making it over in their own image -- self-absorbed.
By Stephen Prothero
February 26, 2001
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Journalist Danny Schechter says the peculiar spiritual movement isn't a cult, but explains why China is cracking down on it so forcefully.
By Daryl Lindsey
February 2, 2001
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China hates him, the West wants to hug him. The spiritual leader of Tibet isn't just the bodhisattva of compassion -- he's one heck of a marketer.
By Chris Colin
November 28, 2000
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What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense?
By Amy Standen
November 20, 2000
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Lucianne Goldberg's is monumental; Judge Jerry's is bigger than Judge Judy's; Rick Rockwell's is black-and-blue; but Muhammad Ali's is definitely the greatest of all time.
By Amy Reiter
March 10, 2000
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Tibetan Orientalism
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The barefoot art of war
If you meet the Buddha in Salon
Buddha on the brain
I'm a Buddhist in Big Pharma -- is that cool?
The disbeliever
Breaths, not bombs
A full moon over Sri Lanka
From street thug to dharma punk
My past life as a dog
"Zig Zag Zen," by Allan Hunt Badiner, ed.
"Buddha" by Karen Armstrong
Save the children, or the Buddhas get it
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Faith in America
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