Ichikawa Hakugen, “Zen, Kegon, and Anarchism”

A fantastic new English translation (with Japanese original) of Ichikawa Hakugen from the team behind the Radical Buddhism Wiki. Zen, Kegon, and Anarchism (Zen, Kegon, anakizumu禅・華厳・アナキズム) is a 1961 essay by Ichikawa Hakugen 市川白弦. This working English translation follows the text reproduced in volume 3 of Ichikawa Hakugen chosakushū 市川白弦著作集 (Kyoto: Hōzōkan, 1993), pp. 319–343, with references on […]

Deeper Resources for Action: Vision

I was recently given the honor of being a guest speaker at a conference organized by the Ulex Project / EcoDharma Center. Ulex is a political education organization based in Spain which provides training and educational resources for social movements to explore the deep and difficult questions of political strategy and its application to egalitarian […]

Process Buddhism and Ecofeminism in the Age of Planetary Polycrisis: Kazi Adi Shakti

I highly recommend checking out Kazi Adi Shakti’s blog, Holo-Poiesis for more radical Madhyamika perspectives.

“NAVEGANDO LA EXTINCIÓN: BUDDHISMO ZEN Y ECOANARQUISMO” – Kevin Holohan

. . “NAVEGANDO LA EXTINCIÓN: BUDDHISMO ZEN Y ECOANARQUISMO” – Kevin Holohan – PDF – EN LÍNEA . “NAVEGANDO LA EXTINCIÓN: BUDDHISMO ZEN Y ECOANARQUISMO” – Kevin Holohan Link to English Text:

«B. R. AMBEDKAR, EL ICONO DE LOS MARGINADOS Y LA MISIÓN DEL NEOBUDDHISMO» – L. Zangtinlen Khongsai

. . «B. R. AMBEDKAR, EL ICONO DE LOS MARGINADOS Y LA MISIÓN DEL NEOBUDDHISMO» – L. Zangtinlen Khongsai – (PDF – EN LÍNEA) . «B. R. AMBEDKAR, EL ICONO DE LOS MARGINADOS Y LA MISIÓN DEL NEOBUDDHISMO» – L. Zangtinlen Khongsai

“EXPLORANDO LA INTERSECCIÓN ENTRE EL ANARQUISMO Y LA ONTOLOGÍA BUDDHISTA” – Gayr Neşriyatı

. . “EXPLORANDO LA INTERSECCIÓN ENTRE EL ANARQUISMO Y LA ONTOLOGÍA BUDDHISTA” – Gayr Neşriyatı – (PDF – EN LÍNEA) . “EXPLORANDO LA INTERSECCIÓN ENTRE EL ANARQUISMO Y LA ONTOLOGÍA BUDDHISTA” – Gayr Neşriyatı

“A CONVERSATION IN THE TIBETAN DESERT”

Commentary At the end of her translation of the great Tibetan epic poem concerning King Gesar, Alexanda David-Neel relates this fascinating story about the author’s encounter with an enigmatic Lama in the Changtang desert of northwestern Tibet. While the conversation itself is interesting enough, it could be interpreted in very different ways. For one, if […]

“The mountain that becomes a path” by Augusto Gen’Un Alcalde

I recently made the acquaintance of Augusto Gen’un Alcade Roshi, a Zen teacher from Argentina. He is also, as it turns out, a lifelong anarchist militant. As a youth in the 1970’s he participated in struggles against the American-backed civil-military dictatorship. Many dissident Argentines were disappeared during these years. Augusto was thankfully never subject to […]

Buddhism and Anarchy (Буддизм и анархия)

I stumbled across an interesting blog post on a Russian livejournal site from 2009 discussing Buddhism and Anarchism. I ran a machine translation and decided to republish it here. I find it especially interesting for its discussion of Bakunin’s negative dialectical method, which I have increasingly come to believe is extremely similar to the Buddhist […]

“Pour la Vie” (1901): Alexandra David-Néel‘s Forgotten Anarchist Philosophy of Life

Alexandra David-Néel’s importance as an early explorer, student and translator of Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhism cannot be overstated. Her books remain today some of the clearest and most intimate expositions of Tibetan Buddhism as it was practiced in Tibet at the start of the 20th Century. She was perhaps the first European to write about […]