Buddhist Economic

A World with out Suffering

Philosopher and Zen teacher David R Loy shares his insights on how Buddhist teachings can help us understand the modern world and pressing global crises and transform our predicament both individually and collectively Published: 13/03/2012 at 08:55 AM Newspaper section: Life What would Lord Buddha do if he lived in this modern world? Ask this question, and...

TIME FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC PARADIGM

TIME FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC PARADIGM(INPUT FOR THE DRAFT OUTCOME DOCUMENT FOR RIO+20)ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN IntroductionIn June, 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, the world?s assembled leaders vowed to ?cooperate in a spirit of global partnership to conserve, protect and restore the health and integrity of the Earth's ecosystem? (Article 7). In order ?to achieve sustainable development?, they further pledged to ?reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns...

David Loy Public lecture and panel with Thai speaker

March 2012 ? Dr. David Loy David R. Loy is a Buddhist philosopher who writes on the interaction between Buddhism and modernity. He has been practicing Zen since 1971 and is an authorized teacher in the Sanbo-Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. David has taught at the National University of Singapore and Bunkyo University in Japan. From 2006 to 2010 he was Professor of ethics/religion and society...

BUDDHIST ECONOMICS Western Buddhist Pioneers from U.K. and USA visit Thailand

BUDDHIST ECONOMICS Western Buddhist Pioneers from U.K. and USA visit Thailand January 2012 ? Dharmachari Vajraketu, Triratna Buddhist Community Managing Director of Windhorse:Evolution for the past 23 years The Triratna Buddhist Community was founded in 1967 as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) by Sangharakshita, an Englishman who spent 20 years in the east, 16 of them as a Buddhist monk. Having returned to Britain in the mid-1960s...

A Middle Way for the Market Place

These days Buddhist meditation techniques are well-known in the West and Buddhist insights into the human condition are, at least in academic circles, exerting a growing influence. Unfortunately the popular image of Buddhism is often an overly-austere one and many people still consider it to teach a denial or escape from worldly concerns into a private, hermetic realm of bliss. However, if we take the...

Buddhist Economic

Usually Buddhists disapprove of the greed and excess of capitalism, but have little more to say. That does not lead to alternatives, just to ineffective, peripheral muttering. If Buddhists are to address the centrality of economics in contemporary life and its privileged role as the discourse setting the terms for all other languages and discourses, we need...