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...Ministry at Harvard & Radcliffe sends a pamphlet on religious life at Harvard to all incoming first-years. The Ministry encourages students to explore some of the 36 groups that it currently recognizes. Among them are a multiplicity of Christian organizations, Hillel for Jewish worship, the Baha'i Association, the Buddhist Community, a Humanist Chaplaincy, the religious Society of Friends, as well as Hindu and Zoroastrian associations...
...actual human person. Thus abortion, if repellent, is not exactly murder. And in most legal codes and systems of morality there is such a thing as justifiable homicide. It might be helpful to look at the case from a perspective other than the orthodox Christian one-a Buddhist viewpoint, let's say. Two great Buddhist principles collide here: reverence for life vs. the precept that the purpose of a human life should be to reduce suffering; any act that increases the total of human suffering is immoral, and any act that reduces suffering is moral. By those criteria, some births...
...Idea of a Chinese Buddhist Canon.Stephen Teiser, professor of religion, PrincetonUniversity. Room 4, Coolidge Hall, 1737 CambridgeSt...
...problematic as Lat's Catechism argument is for Catholics, it's totally irrelevant for anyone else. Over 75 percent of the Harvard out and closeted gay, lesbian and bisexual population who are Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc., certainly won't feel any better if they read the Catechism. Now who's out to convert...
...Mike D's review suggests, the Beasties may have begun to take themselves a little too seriously. Their new record, Ill Communication, which entered the Billboard charts at No. 1, seems overproduced and drained of fun. One well-intentioned song, Bodhisattva Vow, offers lessons on Buddhist thought -- "I try to make my every action for that highest good/ With the altruistic wish to achieve Buddhahood" -- but the underlying music is a snore...