An investigation into the hacking of computers used by the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL) and Tibetan exiles uncovered a Chinese hacker network that has broken into ... Read More

The story thus far: Professor Paul Flesher, head of the religion studies department at the University of Wyoming, wrote an article titled "What Buddhism Does and Does Not Believe In." ... Read More

Last night hundreds of exiled Tibetans, including many monks and nuns, demonstrated in the streets of Katmandu against China's rule over Tibet. This was no doubt a reaction to "Serf ... Read More

His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, or Kyabjé Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche, died at his residence at Namdrol ling monastery in Bylakuppee, India. Phayul.com reported last night that His Holiness entered parinirvana ... Read More

The principal of PS 24 in the Bronx faces charges of leading "Buddhist hate chants" against his enemies. John Landis reports for CBS News that "Philip Scharper is under investigation ... Read More

Every day I look for nuggets of Buddhist news on the Web, and every day I run into news from Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency. Today Xinhua net announced ... Read More

Today Amnesty International released a report called "Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA." The full report (PDF) contains this on page 13: Mr. N, a Buddhist monk from Tibet, ... Read More

Following up yesterday's post about South Africa denying a visa to the Dalai Lama. Celia Dugger reports for the New York Times that the peace conference has been canceled. Two ... Read More

His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been denied a visa by the government of South Africa to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg. So far, two other Nobel Laureates -- ... Read More

Malcolm Moore of the Sydney Morning Herald reports that nearly 100 monks have been arrested in Qinghai, a province in western China with a large ethnic Tibetan population. On March 10 ... Read More

A professor of the University of the Ukraine has published a paper saying the Buddha was a Scythian Arian in ancient Ukraine. I'm not even going to comment. However, I ... Read More

[Original post deleted; what follows is updated.] I wrote a post based on a news story in which I, apparently, terribly misjudged Professor Gregory Schopen and called him a crackpot. ... Read More

I think many of you will appreciate this piece by Mark Vernon at The Guardian. He writes about Bernard d'Espagnat, who is this year's winner of the Templeton Prize for ... Read More

Earlier this week I mentioned the recently released American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS). The survey shows that the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Christian is shrinking. At the ... Read More

Dear Professor Flesher, I have some quibbles with your March 22-28 column, "What Buddhism Does and Does Not Believe In." And your title has a dangling participle, preposition, by the way, ... Read More

Dear Editors, Regarding the article "A Young Lama Weighs Tibetans' Future" by Emily Wax -- As much as anyone, I appreciate that wrapping one's head around Tibetan Buddhism isn't easy. However, ... Read More

At the Washington Times, columnist Julia Duin writes about a Zen meditation group that meets in a Congregational church. Led by Sister Rose Mary Dougherty of the School Sisters ... Read More

One year ago, violence broke out in the streets of Lhasa and touched off waves of protest that reached in many parts of Tibet and China. I wrote on March ... Read More

Carey Goldberg writes in the Boston Globe about post-traumatic stress disorder in exiled Tibetans. In particular, eight Tibetan monks have been treated for PTSD by Dr. Michael Grodin and colleagues ... Read More

Along with writing about the Dalai Lama for this website, yesterday I was invited to write an essay on "The Real Dalai Lama" for the website of the British newspaper ... Read More

The photo is of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, attending a Long Life prayer offerings ceremony to his Holiness the Dalai Lama at the main temple Tsuglag Khang on ... Read More

The full text of the address delivered today in Dharamsala can be read on the website of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It's an unusually strong statement from His Holiness. ... Read More

Tibetan activist Tsering Gyaltsen wipes his tear during a rally calling for freedom for Tibet north of the White House, March 9, 2009, in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images Discuss ... Read More

Matthias Williams of Reuters reports that His Holiness the Dalai Lama will speak tomorrow, the 50th anniversary of his exile from Tibet, and demand "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet. The Dalai ... Read More

Jane Macartney reports for the Times Online (UK) that police plan to round up 109 Buddhist monks from Lutsang monastery in Qinghai province, western China, ad take them away for ... Read More

This is sad. Leila Fujimori writes for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, A mainland group of born-again Christians shouted a message of hellfire for homosexuals and others for five hours yesterday as University ... Read More

The Associated Press reports that tensions are high in Lhasa, Tibet, according to tourists from Hong Kong. Armed security officers are positioned throughout the city, and roads leading to eastern ... Read More

James Ishmael Ford, Unitarian Universalist minister and Soto Zen priest, writes about the Zen Episcopal Bishop. (For background, see "Zen Christian Bishop: Divided Loyalties?" and "More on the Zen Episcopal ... Read More

I find this news story more chilling than reassuring. Xinhua, the news agency of the government of China, reports that a Tibetan monk named Jangkor, of the Kirti Monastery of ... Read More

Tomorrow in Bangkok, Thailand, 19 women and one college will receive the Outstanding Women in Buddhism award for 2009. The recipients have a remarkable record of accomplishments. They have founded ... Read More

An article by W.T.A. Leslie Fernando in the Sri Lanka Daily News says Catholic missionaries in Sri Lanka are attempting to frame Catholicism as a kind of Buddhism in order ... Read More

Zhu Rui is a journalist who is also ethnic Han Chinese. She has reported from Lhasa, Tibet, and Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives and the Tibetan government in ... Read More

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that Chinese security forces have surrounded a monastery in Sichuan Province. This is the same monastery involved in Friday's unfortunate shooting of a protesting monk. According to ... Read More

A couple of days ago I wrote about an Episcopal bishop-elect who has received Zen Buddhist lay ordination. There is -- well, maybe not a groundswell, but at least an ... Read More