The Best Possible Life
As the dharma grows in the West, it will be shaped by our deeply rooted ideas about human flourishing.
Ancient Greece
Walking Backward Toward the Future
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. –Soren Kierkegaard The ancient Greeks, who put the power of Fate above that of Zeus himself, foresaw our own unpredestinate perspective in their metaphor…
Consider the Source: Is the Buddha’s Hairdo Greek?
The brilliant scholar, writer, and postmodernist art critic Thomas McEvilley died in March of this year, but his scholarship may yet spawn a renaissance in our understanding of the ancient world. His epic work, The Shape of…
Consider the Source: Why was Hercules the Buddha’s first guardian?
The connection between early Western and Eastern civilizations is far more intimate than most people realize. Indeed, the earliest depictions of the Buddha, from the area around ancient Gandhara in Pakistan, depict him like the…
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