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Notes on the Coup in Myanmar: Karmic Kingship, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty

Ingrid Jordt
April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Aung San Suu Kyi has been negotiating between two divergent models for political legitimacy and sovereignty. On the one hand are western principles of human rights and democracy, on the other is karmic kingship.

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

Drepung monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. It was from here that the 2nd through the 5th Dalai Lama lived and ruled - until the 5th commissioned the Potala to be built.

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Anne C. Klein
February 16, 2018

When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.

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Notes on the Coup in Myanmar: Karmic Kingship, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness