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Buddha
Overview
Buddhism Texts
Classical Buddhism Selected Teachings
Dhamma
A Gradual Training (Including the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path)
Access to Insight offers citation suggestions at the bottom of pages. The shorthand abbreviations such as Ud or MN refer to primary source texts of the Pali Canon. A guide to the structure of the Pali Canon, with links to the directories may be found here. Buddha’s introduction to his own teaching may be found in the representation of his first sermon here.
Three Basic Facts of Existence
Engaged Buddhism
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wikipedia Overview
Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings (of Engaged Buddhism)
Plum Village
Chan Khong
Overview with archive of Dharma Talks
David R. Loy
Loy, David R. “The Challenge of Mindful Engagement.” In Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement. Edited by Ronald Purser, David Forbes, and Adam Burke (Springer, 2016). PDF format.
Buddhism, Race, and Racism
Lama Rod Owens
Owens, Lama Rod. “The Wrathful Guru: Exploring the Vajrayana Understanding of Anger.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 39, no. 1, Oct. 2019, pp. 19-26. (Library login required)
Buddhism and bell hooks
Kalmanson, Leah. “Buddhism And Bell Hooks: Liberatory Aesthetics And The Radical Subjectivity Of No-Self.” Hypatia: A Journal Of Feminist Philosophy 27.4 (2012): 810-827. (Library Login Required)
“I identify the empowering potential of artistry in everyday life as a third component in hooks’s vision for radical subjectivity.” (818)
Considers hooks’ claim that there is a “connection between our capacity to engage in critical resistance and our ability to experience pleasure and beauty.”
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