Epitaph of a Buddhist Lady

Poetic Justice: Louis Brandeis’s Epitaph

Louis said from the grave, If I am Remembered, don't make me a sham Of a nice Jewish boy, Or the life of a goy (Not to shul [1], Christmas tree [2], and ate ham [3]). False biography would be a flaw-Don't recount what would stick in my craw And thus bring me to grief. For my spiritual brief Was Democracy. Ideas. The law. (It is clear to me that there's a God. Justice comes from Him. But it's no...

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Journal of Buddhist Ethics

I argue that central Buddhist tenets and meditation methodology support a view of free will similar to Harry Frankfurt’s optimistic view and contrary to Galen Strawson’s pessimistic view. For Frankfurt, free will involves a relationship between actions, volitions, and “metavolitions” (volitions about volitions): simplifying greatly, volitional actions are free if the agent approves of them. For...

Epitaph for the EBM in action series.

RESEARCH Initial experience with capsule endoscopy at a major referral hospital André K H Chong, Andrew C F Taylor, Ashley M Miller, Paul V Desmond 537 Stress debriefing after childbirth: a randomised controlled trial Susan R Priest, Jenni Henderson, Sharon F Evans, Ronald Hagan 542 Hepatitis C transmission and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis after needleand syringe-sharing in Australian prisons ...

A Buddhist Perspective on Vulnerability