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Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections

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By Rhonda Magee — 2019

Rhonda Magee's essay Taking and Making Refuge in Racial [Whiteness] Awareness and Racial Justice Work is one of the essays in this collection that explores whiteness and racial injustice through the lens of Buddhism.

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What Makes You Not a Buddhist

So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies.

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Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
2008
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Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology

The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of the formation of the ego provides us with an opportunity to develop real intelligence.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2001
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How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America

This new updated edition of How the Swans Came to the Lake includes much new information about recent events in Buddhist groups in America and discusses such issues as spiritual authority, the role of women, and social action.

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Rick Fields
1992
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Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising

An overview of the complex political and economic powers opposed by the anti-globalization movement and spins a vision of the future.

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Starhawk
2002
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Approaching the Buddhist Path

The first volume in a multivolume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path—now in paperback! His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades.

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The Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
2020
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Turning The Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism

Examines the influence of American Buddhist women on Buddhist spiritual practice and discusses current issues involving politics and family life.

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Sandy Boucher
1993
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Freedom Is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World

How can we transform our collective fear and the deep divisions between us into meaningful change? In Freedom Is an Inside Job, bestselling author, humanitarian, and TV personality Zainab Salbi shares that to transform our outer world, we must turn towards our inner world.

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Zainab Salbi
2018
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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous, and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them, "those people" in Washington, D.C.

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Parker J. Palmer
2014
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness.

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Alice Walker
2007
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Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience

Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation.

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Matthieu Ricard, Wolf Singer
2018
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