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The end of the world, a little earlier than expected...

13 mayo 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Spirituality and religion, Social values
Apparently the world will end on October 21, 2011. That's exactly five months after the "rapture", which takes place this month on May 21, when, the site says, Jesus will arrive for his third official visit to this planet.* Judgment Day, apparently, is only a week away. I thought I had at least until December, 2012 to get the...

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Buddhism in the West

11 mayo 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Spirituality and religion, Social values
I've been reading James Coleman's excellent book, The New Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2001) of late. Subtitled, The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition, it chronicles the many threads of Buddhism on its complex journey into Western culture. Fascinating, thought-provoking stuff, even if the material is a decade old...

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