DPR in Seattle PI

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Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

Wall Street Journal article on American Buddhism

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http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110010842

Buddhist Youth Writers Symposium at Nalanda West

Hi gang,
I am contemplating putting together a conference at Nalanda West in 2008 that would bring together published authors (in many different media) from a diverse variety of Buddhist traditions in America. They would also all be under 40 years old.
Please give me feedback about what you think about this idea, and I'd love to hear any suggestions you have to make it be creative, innovative, engaging, and inspiring.
Please also suggest anyone you'd like to see, hear, and meet.
Best wishes,
Nick

Greetings!

Hello!
Welcome to the 2nd Wave American Buddhists blog!
For more information about what this is all about, please see the first blog post, "Welcome!" in the archives.

The posts below are from 8 different people who posted anonymously, giving an interesting cross-section of 2nd Wave perspective from the Nalandabodhi sangha.

All are welcome to comment and post about their point of view of contemporary American Buddhism, from all lineages.

Peace, and may this benefit all!
Sarva Mangalam!

remember the kids

as a person who works with kids who are having legal troubles, and then working with adults who often were legally troubled kids, I think it's important to make a place available for parents and kids to learn to meditate, perhaps without any Buddhist implication whatsoever. I often think: if these people had learned meditation, buddhism aside, it's possible they would have a different trajectory.

relevancy

i think this dovetails a lot with our desire to provide programs from younger teachers with a distinctively cross-cultural message - that is the stuff that made the most difference to me as a younger practitioner coming into the dharma - people who were grounded in the tradition but speaking in my language and about stuff that was relevant to my life. not so much for tibetan texts etc.

so, in a word: younger, more cross-cultural, and sometimes more thematic - like addiction and dharma, or relationships and dharma, stuff like that.