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    Answering The Questioner's Needs Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 18 Jan 2011
    In his book Skill in Questions, Thai forest monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu describes the Buddha's skill in answering the needs of each questioner: More »
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    Coming January 3rd: The Ten Perfections retreat with Thanissaro Bhikkhu Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 23 Dec 2010
    Thai forest monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu, also called Than Geoff, is well known in the Buddhist community for his translations of texts from the Pali Canon. (His prolificacy is nearly proverbial among book-writing Buddhists!) You can find his canonical translations on Access to Insight, and you can listen to a large number of his dhamma talks and writings on Dhammatalks.org. More »
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    Skill in Questions by Thanissaro Bhikkhu Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 21 Oct 2010
    Thanissaro Bhikkhu, the maddeningly prolific (at least to other dharma writers, that is) monk from the Thai forest tradition pictured at right, has a new book out: Skill in Questions. It's available as a free PDF (3 PDfs, actually) downloadable from dhammatalks.org. The book begins: When we read the account of the Buddha’s last night, it’s easy to sense the importance of his final teaching before entering total nibbana: “Now, then, monks, I exhort you: All fabrications are subject to decay. Bring about completion by being heedful.” These words call attention to themselves because they were the last he ever said. More »
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    Tennis's #1 ranked player Rafael Nadal visits Buddhist monks in Thailand Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 27 Sep 2010
    Where does the best Tennis player in the world go after winning the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open in one year? Thailand. This weekend, # 1 ranked Tennis player Rafael Nadal visited Buddhist monks at a beach in Thailand's Prachuab province outside of Bangkok. No word on whether or not the Tennis superstar is a practicing Buddhist, but Nadal did cause some controversy in July when he expressed doubt over the existence of God in an interview with Sports Illustrated: Do you believe in God? We see football players crossing themselves. You don't do that. Do you do praying? It's hard to say, "I don't believe in God." I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe. I don't know. More »
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    Thai Palm d'Or filmmaker to serve as judge for YouTube Play Paid Member

    Posted by James Shaheen on 16 Sep 2010
    Once learned, a name like Apichatpong Weerasethakul is hard to forget. So when I saw his name in the Toronto Globe and Mail today, I remembered that we'd profiled the Thai filmmaker a few years back. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize for Tropical Malady, Apichatpong received high praise when his next film, Syndromes and a Century, was released. As we wrote in 2008: Apichatpong continues this surprising journey with his latest film, Syndromes and a Century, which opened in North American theaters in April after a successful tour on the festival circuit. More »