Category: Fomenting

Inching towards change?

  • silhouettes

    8:30 AM, January in Aberdeen: the brightest stars are still clearly visible, the eastern sky red and black with long strings of clouds torn to tatters from their long journey...

    By Fomenting, natural history, people, research

  • Brutal irony

    Saturday was Buddha Pūrṇimā, the international holiday that celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing. The UN Secretary General issued a message calling for solidarity and the alleviation of suffering....

    By Events, Fomenting, people

  • Satirical bingo.

    http://elusis.livejournal.com/1869260.html : what an excellent boardgame.

    By Fomenting

  • Buddhist exclusivism in Sri Lanka

    Is this modernism, exclusivism or fundamentalism? I’ve got a chapter coming out (in Sharing the Sacra, ed. Glenn Bowman) in which I discuss local responses to a similar attitude among...

    By Buddhism, Fomenting, Himalayas, people, research

  • My office smells

    I walked in the door of my office this morning, having trod across the Old Aberdeen landscape. Rotting leaves, frozen ponds, barking dogs. Having heaved one sack each of papers...

    By Fomenting, people, Serendipity