opensourcebuddhism Channel profile

Join: Jun 10, 2008

Name: opensourcebuddhism

Gender: Male

Hometown: Indianapolis

Location: Madson, US

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I have been involved in online Buddhism education since 1999 while working in Nepal. This sample on Youtube is the smidgen of what we have accomplished at the OpenSource Buddhist Research Institute - Madison. Please visit opensourcebuddhism.org and see much much more! I received my BA in Buddhist Studies at Northwestern with Isshi Yamada, advisor, Sanskrit and Indian/Chinese et.al. Mahayana; BA/MA at University of Cambridge in Theology with Christopher Rowland (Biblical Studies and Liberation Theology - now at Oxford), the Master of Divinity (MDiv) from the University of Chicago studying with Father Dr. David Tracy by way of hermeneutical approaches to Buddhist Studies. I was ordained into the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and still consider myself a minister in that tradition. I was ordained with a for-acknowledged commitment to Buddhist thinking. What a liberal church! AFter a year's ministry in Ontario, I returned to Buddhism, receiving the PhD in Buddhist STudies at Wisconsin in 1997, the very last of a line of the ancien regime. I was grilled by Kiyota, Sopa and Buhnemann. There would never again be the classic combination. I have taught world religions at Edgewood (and still do), East/WEst Perspectives and Introduction to Philosophy at the Madison ARea Technical College, I taught the comparative study of religions at the Royal Tribhuvan University at Kathmandu, I taught Sanskrit at the University of Iowa, and filled in for three different years as Visiting PRof in Buddhist STudies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received the PhD in Buddhist STudies at the once famed University of Wisconsin-Madison's Buddhist STudies Program. I came to study with Geshe Sopa to hear the Tibetan side of the issues and contrast them with what I learned from Yamada. It has proven to be the wildest ride I have seen!

Videos (145)

Islam:

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by Katie Starker through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org

Ayurveda: Indian Medical Tradition

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by Samantha Staley through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org

Philosophy in History in Albania

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by Jeta Rrustemaj through Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org

Parfit and the Buddha on No Self

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by Leinweber through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very interesting piece examines the similar though not quite the denial of the individual, unchanging self from the perspective of Derek Parfitt and the Buddha. Nice, thoughtful piece

Women in Islam

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by Vjolca Zekiri through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org In this project we get to see what the Qur'an specifically says about the attire and behavior of women. We hear what the "beatings" they receive really amount to (not much). We find that women in Islam...

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Mereological Nihilism: The World is a Nothing/Something

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by Patrick Kirk through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This absolutely fascinating piece by Patrick Kirk based on the mereological nihilism of Jeffrey Grupp reveals how the Buddhists were right: reality is but "pinpoints" of quanta blipping in and out of...

Satan: a Brief History

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by Zach Ahnert through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very interesting work chronicles the character development of Satan. He starts off rather innocently, even doing the very work of God, in the Book of Job. He gets much darker as Christianity separates...

Speaking Style East and West: the Dalai Lama and M. L. King

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by Rick Raulins through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This really nicely done work investigates the speaking styles of these two well-known peacemakers, one Buddhist, one Protestant. We learn that the latter is down and dirty with the people, while the Dalai...

The Soviet Jewish Homeland

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by Miriam Hasan through Rev. Dr. James K. Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This touching and poignant, empathetic work depicts the history of anti-semitism in Russia. We hear of the pogroms, the calculated plans to eliminate Jews, and just when the Bolshevik revolution portended change, it...

Turkish Buddhism: Its Origins and Demise

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by Jack Rowe through Professor Rev. Dr. James K. Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This excellent piece of new research provides us with a glimpse of a once widespread Buddhism in Turkestan. Islamic conversions sealed its fate and now it lives on only in Buryatia.





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