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    Right Livelihood Award laureates announced; Amy Goodman among them Paid Member

    Posted by tricycleblog on 09 Dec 2008
    The Nobel Prize, for all the much-deserved attention it draws to innovative and important people (HH The Dalai Lama among them), has attracted criticism for its selection process—individuals are chosen by predetermined panels, ruling out less-famous potential candidates. In 1980, Jakob von Uexkull founded the Right Livelihood Award, which has come to be known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." Unlike the Nobel, the award accepts nominations from anybody. This year's recipients were just announced, and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! is one of them. She interviewed two of the other three recipients on yesterday's show. Check out the Right Livelihood website to read more about Goodman and the other three laureates. More »
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    Another 9/11? Let's hope not. Paid Member

    Posted by tricycleblog on 04 Dec 2008
    Although the media insists on comparing last week's terrorist assaults in Mumbai to 9/11, India's government has (so far) thankfully resisted pressure to react with the misinformed and excessive force that has characterized the U.S.'s post-9/11 war efforts. In an Op-Ed piece for today's New York Times, the Indian-Bengali author Amitav Ghosh explains that the Mumbai invasion is closer to the 2004 Madrid train bombings than it is to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and makes a wise and sensitive argument for a patient response. I was grateful to see Ghosh offering his thoughts on the situation in India. More »
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    Congressional Buddhists Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 07 Nov 2008
    More Buddhist news this political season: Barbara O'Brien at About.com notes two Buddhists were re-elected to Congress! And The Buddhist Channel has unsurprising news that repression continues in Tibet and access for foreign journalists is blocked. Tensions heat up between Burma and Bangladesh over natural gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal. Burma has ominously positioned four warships off its coast. Danny Fisher noted the early signs of this a few days back. More »
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    Politics not as usual Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 06 Nov 2008
    The prez-elect gets some good advice in an open letter to Barack Obama from Alice Walker: A good model of how to "work with the enemy" internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet. Tyentte Deveaux on Shambhala Sun Space writes that Obama's election is a good sign for Tibetans too (despite the Dalai Lama's apparent disappointment with Beijing). And Konchog a More »