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Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine based upon the teachings of the Buddha.

Buddhist Publishing Group (BPG) was formed in 1983 and published the paper issue of Buddhism Now between 1989-2007.

• What really works? By Ajahn Sumedho

  By Buddhism Now on 19 August 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Question: An academic friend of mine has done some research and come up with the theory that the historical Buddha didn’t really live, that the Buddhist teachings were of a later period. Is the personality of the Buddha important for… Read More ›

• Experience your own Awareness: A Conversation on Chan (Zen) Buddhism with Bill Porter

  By Buddhism Now on 16 August 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Short film: A Conversation on Chan (Zen) Buddhism with Bill Porter. About 30 minutes

• A taste of Zen: Heze Shenhui

  By Buddhism Now on 12 August 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Shenhui thus founded what became known as the Heze (in Japanese, Kataku) school of Zen. The branch largely died out during the early ninth century and is not remembered as a major school. Nevertheless, the doctrine of sudden enlightenment remained a central characteristic that defined the teaching styles and cultural flavour of later Chinese Zen…

• An introduction to mindfulness meditation by Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche (part 2)

  By Buddhism Now on 5 August 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Buddhist video: Part two: An introduction to mindfulness meditation by Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche at Benchen Monastery on 27 April 2014. (about 1 hour 16 minutes)

• Investigation of the Live Word, by Taego Pou

  By Buddhism Now on 1 August 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Do not do anything (good or bad) and do not even do this not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast and peaceful place where there are absolutely no obstructing thoughts…

• Virtue, Calligraphy by Hakuin

  By Buddhism Now on 25 July 2015 • ( 1 )

  This oversize rendition of the character for “virtue” (toku 悳) reflects the exuberant spiritual energy projected by Hakuin Ekaku, who was one of the foremost proponents of the revival of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism in late Edo Japan. Originally composed by Chinese historian and scholar of Confucianism Sima Guang (1018–1086), the inscription reads:

• Refuge for Animals by Lama Chime Rinpoche

  By Buddhism Now on 24 July 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  One for dog lovers. ‘Refuge for Animals’ by Lama Chime Rinpoche.

• Spiritual Disease, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

  By Buddhism Now on 16 July 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Every one of us has the disease of ‘I’ and ‘mine’, and we absorb more germs every time we see a form, smell an odour, touch a tangible object, taste a flavour, or think in the manner of an ignorant person. In other words, there is the reception of the germ, those things surrounding us that are infected and cause the disease, every time there is sense contact…