Tag: buddhism

Geopolitics

The Battle for the Buddha: How the Dalai Lama's Succession Exposes a New Imperial Contest

The article highlights the intensifying geopolitical contest between India and China over the succession of the Dalai Lama, which serves as a proxy for a broader struggle over custodianship of Buddhism and influence in Asia. This neo-colonial scramble, driven by an atheist state's absurd claims to religious authority, lays bare the hypocritical machinery of imperial power attempting to subjugate a faith and a people, while civilizational India stands as the rightful, moral beacon.

Geopolitics

The Consciousness Deficit: How a Western Mechanistic Worldview is Hijacking Humanity's Future Through Technology

The central crisis of the digital age is not technological but a profound crisis of human consciousness, marked by a dwindling capacity for ethical reflection and responsibility. This existential surrender to our own tools threatens to shatter the soul of civilization, reducing the ancient wisdom of the Global South and the aspirational self-realization of humanity to mere data points for algorithmic consumption.

Geopolitics

The Atamasthana Arrest: A Litmus Test for Equality and the Perils of Political Buddhism

A senior Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, the Venerable Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, has been arrested on allegations of sexually abusing a minor, exposing a deep-seated crisis where deference to religious authority often shields criminal conduct from equal application of the law. This tragic case starkly reveals the corrosive hypocrisy of a system where political cowardice and the cynical manipulation of faith create pockets of impunity, betraying the very citizens and principles such institutions are meant to protect.