All Posts Tagged With: "Buddhism"
“Change or Die:” American Buddhism When Baby-Boomer Converts Are Gone
In the current issue of the quarterly American Buddhist magazine Tricycle, contributing editor and former Zen monk Clark Strand makes a provocative claim: that American Buddhism must “change or die.” American converts to Buddhism have focused on spiritual practice to the exclusion of concerns like creating rituals and passing along the tradition to the next [...]
20Sep2007 | Andrea Useem | 13 comments | Continued“Whether You Pull the Trigger or Not…” Q+A with Aidan Delgado
As he writes in his memoir, former soldier and Buddhist Aidan Delgado has been called everything from a “man of principle” to a communist “barking moon-bat” for his decision to become a conscientious objector while serving in Iraq and his activism since then to protest the war and call attention to atrocities committed by American [...]
8Aug2007 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | ContinuedA Buddhist at Abu Ghraib: Conscience in the Crossfire
Everyone has their 9/11 story — “What were you doing when the planes hit?” — but Aidan Delgado’s surely deserves the prize for Most Ironic. He was at an Army recruiting office, signing on the dotted line for an eight-year enlistment with the Army Reserve, seeking to escape the “elitism” and “petty sophistication” of his [...]
6Aug2007 | Andrea Useem | 1 comment | Continued