Buddhism
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Across Wisconsin, Recent Rises In Hate, Bias Incidents Spark Concern
The reports came in at an alarming pace. A student at a middle school near Milwaukee drew a stick figure with a swastika on its face. The image held a […]
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How ‘Big Gods’ Made It Easier to Trust One Another
For tens of thousands of years, humans lived in small bands of hunter-gatherers, sharing certain animistic beliefs. Then everything changed. In just a few thousand years, large groups of people […]
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Madison Area Entrepreneur Proposes Citywide Anti-Hate Registry
In the weeks since Election Day, Donald Trump and his advisors have continued to send mixed signals about where the president-elect stands on requiring registries of Syrian immigrants and Muslim-Americans, […]
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A Buddhist Monk’s 4-Year Quest For Awareness
One morning in June 2011, residents of the Tergar Monastery in Bodhgaya, India, awoke to find that celebrated the master of Buddhist meditation, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, had vanished. He appeared […]