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Books (16)

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Ends and Means: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization (1937) – Aldous Huxley
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) – Katherine Boo
Buddhism and Social Action (1981) – Ken Jones
Saints and Psychopaths (1995) – William Hamilton
A Field Guide to Socially Engaged Buddhism (2012)
The Politics of Tourism in Asia (1989) – Linda K. Richter
Power (2012) – Todd May
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017) – Robert M. Sapolsky
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) – Jared Diamond
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009) – Rebecca Solnit
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (2017) – Malcolm Harris
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) – Yuval Noah Harari
Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built (2018) – Jessica Marie Falcone
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021) – Elizabeth Kolbert
The Art of Power (2007) – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Canonical Works (4)

DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of Recluseship (1989)
MN 104: At Sāmagāma (2009)
AN 3.100: A Lump of Salt (2018)
SN 41.4: Mahaka’s Demonstration (2018)

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Readings (29)

Should Trees Have Standing: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) – Christopher D. Stone
The Power of Interconnectivity: Tan Sitong’s Invention of Historical Agency in Late Qing China (2009) – Hung-yok Ip
War and Peace (2014) – Bhikkhu Bodhi and Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
Merit-Making or Financial Fraud: Litigating Buddhist Nuns in Early 10th-Century Dunhuang (2018) – Chuilan Liu
Can Killing a Living Being Ever Be an Act of Compassion?: The Act of Killing in the Abhidhamma and Pali Commentaries (2004) – Rupert Gethin
The Difficulties Of Combating Inequality In Time (2019) – Jane Jenson, Francesca Polletta, and Paige Raibmon
Politics of Higher Ordination, Buddhist Monastic Identity, and Leadership in Sri Lanka (1999) – Ananda Abeysekara
The Shuk-den Affair: History and Nature of a Quarrel (1998) – George Dreyfus
Putting Cruelty First (1982) – Judith Shklar
On realizing the possibilities of emancipatory meta-theory: Beyond the cognitive maturity fallacy, toward an education revolution (2015) – Zachary Stein
Compassionate Violence?: On the Ethical Implications of Tantric Buddhist Ritual (2007) – David B. Gray
Inequality Is Always in the Room: Language and Power in Deliberative Democracy (2017) – Arthur Lupia and Anne Norton
Tradition, Power, and Community among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka (2017) – Nirmala S. Salgado
Female Authority and Privileged Lives: The Hagiography of Mingyur Peldrön (2018) – Alison Melnick Dyer
The Global Refugee Crisis and the Gift of Fearlessness (2019) – Christina A. Kilby
A Comparison of the Chinese and Pāli Versions of the Bala Saṃyukta, a Collection of Early Buddhist Discourses on Powers (2012) – Mun-keat Choong
Legitimacy Authenticity and Authority in the New Religions (1983) – Ken Wilber
From Aśoka to Jayavarman VII: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia (2014) – Hermann Kulke
Sexual Harassment of Women Leaders (2020) – Olle Folke, Johanna Rickne, Seiki Tanaka, and Yasuka Tateishi
Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism (2020) – Ray Buckner
Building Bridges for the Buddha (2009) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika
Violently Peaceful: Tibetan Self-Immolation and the Problem of the Non/Violence Binary (2015) – John Soboslai
The NBA, China, and the Hong Kong protests (2019) – Matthew Yglesias
The Revolutionary Thoreau (2020) – R. H. Lossin
Buzz Buzz Buzz (2020) – Michelle Nijhuis
Buddhism: A Balancing Factor for Current World Developments (2009) – Ven Dhammavamso
You’re Not a Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating (2016) – Miki Kashtan
All Of Humanity’s Problems Are Caused By A Lack Of Awareness (2021) – Caitlin Johnstone
The Worldwide Sangha (2008) – Bhante Varado

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Audio/Video (14)

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Guard our Senses and Live a Happier Life (2016) – Ven Hong Ci
The Limits of Power (2013) – Malcolm Gladwell
A Good Walk Spoiled (2017) – Malcolm Gladwell
Are Bosses Dictators? (2019) – Elizabeth Anderson and Ezra Klein
The Moral Panics of Our Time (2021) – Tressie McMillan Cottom and Ezra Klein
The Art of Being Peace (2008) – Thích Nhất Hạnh
I Work Better on Deadline (2022) – Sean Cole, Sarah Gibson, and Ira Glass
Stories of resistance and protest from around the world (2020) – The History Hour
Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life (2012) – Sean Cole
Mine! (2021) – Roman Mars, Michael Heller, and Jim Salzman
The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods (2023) – Dana Gioia and Major Jackson
The Buddha in Lanna (2020) – Angela S. Chiu
Revisionist History Podcast (Series) – Malcolm Gladwell

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