Engaged Buddhism ' a 'practice What You Preach' Approach
Engaged Buddhism is a contemporary movement that concentrates on developing Buddhist solutions to social political and ecological problems The term 'engaged Buddhism was coined in 1963 by a Vietnamese monk named Thich Nhat Hanh when his country was in the middle of war

New Book Provides Authentic No-Nonsense Spirituality for Authentic No-Nonsense Peole
For answering age old questions like “Who am I,” “Why am I here,” “How can I live a meaningful life,” Stephen Asma has found the answers in Buddhism, but a Buddhism he has shaped to fit rather than one-size fits all. He dispenses with the “New Age mush” and takes “the California out of Buddhism” to form a Buddhism that is accessible and inclusive for people, people who may be put off by organized religion or dogma stacked on dogma. He builds the case for an authentic modality in his own iconoclastic, irreverent, and hardheaded way in Why I Am a Buddhist: No-Nonsense Buddhism with Red Meat and Whiskey.

Buddhism: Thailand Part 2
Buddhism gained wide acceptance because its emphasis on tolerance and individual initiative complemented the Thais? cherished inner freedom Fundamentally, Buddhism is an empirical way of life

Buddhism: Thailand Part 3
As in medieval Europe, most early Thai scholars were clerics whose major monastic activity was to teach the unlettered Behind the quiet facade of monastic life, many village boys learned the rudiments of reading and writing Thai and Pali, simple arithmetic and the Buddhist precepts