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A Conversation with Be Zero’s Andrea Sanders

June 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Madison Tarleton The longer Andrea and I stayed on the topic of “sacred,” the more I began to understand the short-sightedness of my question.

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Tactile Materiality and Iconic Abundance in Zen? 7 Questions for Pamela Winfield and Steven Heine

October 12, 2017 1 Comment

Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine We hope to demonstrate the tactile materiality and iconic abundance of the tradition, thereby calling attention to the vast range of “stuff” in Zen.

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7 Questions for Eric Reinders

April 05, 2016 Leave a Comment

Eric Reinders Then I read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish about the making of the soldier’s body and I thought, yes, there might be a way to talk about monastic discipline in a new way. 

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Peace, Love, and World Religions?

October 22, 2015 1 Comment
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Brian Pennington In 1893, Presbyterian minister John Henry Barrows opened the inaugural World’s Parliament of Religion in Chicago by inviting the first-ever assembly of religious leaders from across the globe to join him in a “act of common worship” and to sing Isaac Watt’s Trinitarian re-write of the 100th Psalm. This less-than-catholic invocation, which concludes with the call to “Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost,” was followed by a similar gesture when Cardinal James Gibbons recited the Lord’s Prayer, which Barrow declared the “universal prayer” that would open each of the Parliament’s seventeen days.

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Corporate Profit Through Buddhist Kitsch

September 24, 2015 1 Comment
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Jolyon Baraka Thomas My wife and I stepped into a home furnishings store in Arcata, California, this past May. We weren’t necessarily looking to buy much, but with an upcoming move to Philadelphia we were checking out furniture styles and seeking decoration ideas for our new home. We were on vacation and needed a bit of a break between brunch and a hike, so a little idle consumerism seemed like an appropriate midday activity.

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Tongue in Cheek, Just in Case

June 13, 2015 1 Comment
Japanese shrine, 2014. Photo by "dewd82." Available via CC0 Public Domain and PixaBoy.

Jolyon Baraka Thomas Few people would think that the essence of Japanese religion could be encapsulated in an advertisement for antivirus software, but then again few people outside of Japan have seen this video.

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Field Notes on Drinking at a Buddhist Bar

March 26, 2015 1 Comment
Vow's Bar Business Card (front) by Jolyon B. Thomas

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We are pretty familiar with how Tokyo’s neighborhoods reward the adventurous, so when Three and I met up for drinks in Nakano on an autumn evening in 2012, we struck out for one of the small side streets near the station instead of walking down the larger shopping arcade directly across from the station exit.

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Daily Sacred

September 26, 2014 Leave a Comment

                                      “Shunyata” by Hoyt Oliver: Wholly Holey Holy, a cedar log sculpture in the Oxford College library. Images of quite a few

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Daily Sacred

September 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

@emmer37 “The Sacred” #sacredmatters #WRNews. Show us your sacred! Share your images with us by tagging your photos with #sacredmatters on Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Tumblr or email us at sacredmatters@emory.edu. Please include where and when your photo was taken. We

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Meditations on Death, Presence, and Practice

April 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

By Sienna Craig According to Tibetan tradition, when we die we enter into the bardo, a liminal realm between death and rebirth. For the forty-nine days after our body returns to the elements from whence it arose—earth, air, water, fire,

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