Buddhist Abbey, Catholic Colleges, Eye For Eye

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Buddhist Abbey A Dream Fulfilled For U.S. Nuns By Tracy Simmons Religion News Service NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) There aren't a lot of Buddhists in America -- around 3 million or so, according to the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. There isn't exactly an abundance of monasteries here either, let alone Buddhist clergy. Yet just outside of this town of about 21,000 people, Sravasti Abbey sits as one of the only monastic communities in the West for Americans wishing to study the Buddha's teachings. What's even more unique is that the abbey now has five U.S.-born, fully ordained nuns, called bhikshunis. An 'Eye For An Eye' And The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Pope Benedict Wants Catholic Colleges to Ensure Orthodoxy Rosa Parks Gets Statue In National Cathedral Buddha Nature And The Divided Brain Bible Pop Quiz How Much Do You Really Know? BLOG POSTS Arnold M. Eisen: Holiness After the Death of 6 Million Holiness is meant to pervade all of daily behavior, not to inhabit the high points of experience only. Love means reaching out toward neighbors and the world with the same care, regard and generosity we normally reserve for ourselves and those closest to us. Anat Biletzki: Why I Am Not a Liberal Zionist: A Response to Liberal Zionists Speak Out If Zionism has been based on a set of values -- any values -- that "override whatever injustices statehood has brought," then it has taken us as far as one can get from the set of values that undergird liberal democracy. Jeanne Flavin: How Catholic Universities' Contraceptive Ban Fails Our Students What's at stake here is not just contraceptive coverage but the value that Catholic institutions place on women's lives. My experiences, and those of my students, make clear that contraception bans will have far-reaching and damaging implications for female students. Christopher H. Evans: United Methodists in Tampa: Looking for Scapegoats, Living in Fear In the aftermath of the 2012 General Conference, it seems fair to ask United Methodist conservatives what they ultimately hope to achieve by refusing to open the church to the gifts of gay and lesbian persons. Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman: A Torah for Lag B'Omer: Open My Eyes That I May See Wonders in Your Torah May the fires of Lag B'Omer reveal deeper and deeper levels of revelation and the commitment to spread the light of Torah until the "farthest reaches" of our inner soul and to those around us.

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