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Bhikkhu Bodhi at the UN on Vesak
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Vesak and Climate Crisis at the UN

On May’s full moon, Buddhists around the world commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. In 2019, Bhikkhu Bodhi marked the occasion with a passionate call for a systems-wide climate awakening.
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Climate Change as a Moral Call to Social Transformation

First published 10 years ago, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi distills the climate crisis down to its core, unchanging truths. His words are as wise and relevant now as they were then. What might we learn from a read this time around?
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Biodegradable Blessings in the Himalayas

On the occasion of Vesak we are invited to contemplate whether the real world objects emblematic of our tradition are aligned with its teachings.
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The Elephant in the Dharma Hall

What is the place of politics on The Path?

John Peacock asks us to courageously question all that we are leaving out when we constrain the scope of the Dharma to be merely the personal.
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Let’s Free Ourselves from the Story of Economic Growth

The institutionalized demand for endless growth is pushing us past safe planetary boundaries. How might we liberate ourselves from this disastrous collective dream?
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In the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve in Tibet, an area three times the size of Newfoundland. © Kalden Dhatsenpa
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Canada Birthed a Mining Industry in Chinese-Occupied Tibet

Over the past 15 years, Canadian mining companies have quite literally paved the way to increased exploitation of Tibet's people and landscape. Now Chinese industries are reaping the benefits.
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Take Action, but Do It Kindly

How can we respond effectively to suffering, enmeshed as we are within the very systems that perpetuate it?
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The Buddha on Poverty and Plutocracy

Wealth inequality is not merely unjust—it's a threat to the fabric of society and the web of life. What would a Dharma response to institutional greed look like?
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Giving Radically

The foundational Buddhist principle of dana, or generosity, poses a profound challenge to our separative, extractive relationship with Earth. What forms of ecological, economic, and social renewal might be possible if we see through the delusion of endless acquisition?
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The Future We Choose

With the U.S. poised to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, architects Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac describe how a Buddhist perspective still provides hope for its realization.
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