Spiritual Bypassing and the Plight of Ingyinbin
As the Burmese spiritual center becomes the focal point of a violent campaign by the military junta, one practitioner asks why the greater Vipassana Organization has remained silent.
Joah McGee
Joah McGee is a longtime practitioner and researcher of Burmese Buddhism. He has produced a meditator’s guidebook to the country, led pilgrimages to sacred sites, made a documentary about Theravada Buddhist monk Webu Sayadaw, and currently hosts the Insight Myanmar Podcast. Since the military coup, he has been collecting and distributing donations through his Better Burma nonprofit.
Friedgard Lottermoser, Who Made Significant Contributions to the Global Dissemination of Vipassana Meditation, Has Died
An accomplished scholar and author, Lottermoser worked on the books Code of Conduct for Buddhist Nuns and A Critical Pali Dictionary.
Spiritually Bypassing the Coup
Why—and how—practitioners should choose engagement over inaction in response to Myanmar's recent coup
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