Buddhist-Based Resources for Relief and Social Change
Posted on March 20, 2011 by Alan Senauke
India 2011, #5: Deer Park Institute/Bir to Delhi
#5 — 3.21.11 — Deer Park Institute/Bir to Delhi
Back in Delhi for an unscheduled day at a comfortable guesthouse, Lutyens Bungalows, before flying home tomorrow. We arrived at Old Delhi station at 5:30 this morning after rocking and rocketing … Read more
Posted on March 12, 2011 by Alan Senauke
India 2011, #4: To the North
We left Nagaloka at 6 this morning, for the Nagpur airport and an early flight to Delhi. Tonight, an overnight train to Panthankot and passage to Dharamsala and Deer Park monastery in Bir.
Nagpur’s morning streets were blessedly free of … Read more
Posted on March 8, 2011 by Alan Senauke
India 2011, #3
8 March 2011
I am back at Nagaloka in Nagpur after three days in Mumbai, the start of our Think Sangha study tour. Although I only left Nagaloka three days ago, it felt almost like a homecoming to return.
Arriving … Read more
Posted on March 3, 2011 by Alan Senauke
India 2011, #2
3 March
Settling in a bit. Very different experience this time. Drawing energy from the Nagaloka students, which is good. Doing a 2 ½ hour class each morning, then eating and talking with them. Talking is sometimes hard, with limited … Read more
Posted on March 1, 2011 by Alan Senauke
India 2011, #1
I am here at Nagaloka in Nagpur. The atmosphere is excellent—outside of town, pretty quiet, and relatively cool in the evening. The cadre of students is all new. None left that I met last year. But they are very friendly … Read more
Posted on May 31, 2008 by Alan Senauke
Four Movements in the History of Socially Engaged Buddhism and Their Central Contributions
by Donald Rothberg and Alan Senauke
What is socially engaged Buddhism? It is Dharma practice that flows from the understanding of the complete yet complicated interdependence of all life. It is the practice of the Bodhisattva vow to save all … Read more
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Posted on March 21, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Think Sangha in India, March 2011
As long as I can remember I have yearned for community. Most living beings, human or otherwise, have the same yearning. The Buddha recognized this, creating the fourfold sangha as a ground for liberation. Over the last twenty or twenty-five … Read more