Blog Profile / Rev. Danny Fisher
| URL : | http://dannyfisher.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Religion / Buddhism | |
| Posts on Regator: | 978 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.4 | |
| Archived Since: | November 5, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Check Out My New Interview with Scholars William Whittington and Vicki Callahan about Buddhism, Film and Social Justice at My Patheos Blog
Over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion, I have posted a new interview with my friends William Whittington and Vicki Callahan, professors at the University of Southern California’s School for the Cinematic Arts. In it, we discuss the intersection of Buddhism, film, and social justice. You can read it here. I met Vicki (who […]
Plot to Save the Earth
I’ve blogged before in the past about my friend and inspiration Charles S. Prebish. I interviewed Chuck and John Harding about the late Leslie Kawamura for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online; did a roundtable conversation...Show More Summary
Want to Get a Cool Big Lebowski T-Shirt and Support Buddhist Global Relief at the Same Time? Now You Can!
Awesome news: my dear old college friend Dan Ewen, the noted screenwriter and comedy writer, and his friend Tom Richner (a longtime artist for The Simpsons) have designed an amazing T-shirt that both honors the Buddhist connection to The Big Lebowski and benefits Buddhist Global Relief with 10% of each sale. You can buy one right here. Dan [...]
I Got Engaged!
I’m very pleased to share with you all that three days ago, on my birthday, with a little help from the incredibly heroic and very dear New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, (see above), I proposed to my partner Steph and she said “yes.” I’ve blogged twice before — here and here — about the book Nick [...]
Why Did I Take My Class to Skid Row? (And Other Questions)…
All is revealed in my new post at University of the West’s Dharma Dialogue blog! For the uninitiated, Dharma Dialogue began last fall with a course taught by UWest’s Chair of the Religious Studies Department, Dr. Jane Iwamura. That course was “Buddhism in the U.S.”, and the posts from the students generated much conversation in the [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT: My Brand New Book Benefit Beings!: The Buddhist Guide to Professional Chaplaincy is Now Available!
I’m very pleased to tell you all that my book Benefit Beings!: The Buddhist Guide to Professional Chaplaincy is now available! You can purchase a print copy at Amazon.com, and you can also buy an e-book version at Amazon.com’s Kindle Store. I describe the book this way: Benefit Beings! was written to help Buddhists engaged in [...]
I Contributed a Chapter to Daniel S. Schipani’s New Book Multifaith Views in Spiritual Care
I have contributed a chapter — “Three Yanas for Wise Caring: A Buddhist Perspective on Spiritual Care” — to editor Daniel S. Schipani’s Multifaith Views in Spiritual Care. It is the lone chapter about spiritual care from a Buddhist perspective in the book. The other chapters share approaches from six other religious perspectives. The publisher [...]
A Clip of My Recent Teaching on “Engaged Buddhism” at Long Beach Meditation
It’s exactly what the title suggests! See below… (And do make sure to visit Long Beach Meditation online here.)
An Updated/Revised/Expanded/Transcribed Version of My Dharma Talk “Buddhism After Half the Sky“
Over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion, I have just posted an updated, revised, expanded, and transcribed version of a dharma talk I delivered at the Rosemead Buddhist Monastery in Rosemead, CA, on April 8th, 2012. The talk originally appeared here, and was later reposted on the official Facebook page of Half the Sky, with the webmaster writing: “After reading [...]
I’ll Be a Keynote Speaker at the Winter Conference of the Association for Humanistic Psychology
I’m very pleased to tell you that I’ll be a keynote speaker at the winter conference of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. I’ll be speaking on social justice as it relates to both Humanistic Psychology and Buddhism. If I can make a recording easily, I may post it here in the future. Find out more about [...]
“Let’s Talk About Sex…”
…Or, rather, as I say in one of my latest Patheos posts, let’s talk about sexual assault. Please take a look at my recent opinion on the Joshu Sasaki scandal that has recently come to light, and share your thoughts with us in the comments — a lively discussion is happening there now.
My Review of Charles S. Prebish’s An American Buddhist Life Appears in the Latest Issue of The Journal of Global Buddhism
I’ve got a review of Charles S. Prebish’s An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer in the latest issue of The Journal of Global Buddhism. I hope you’ll take a look here. I’ve blogged before in the past about my friend and inspiration Charles S. Prebish, with whom I am pictured above. As I’ve said before: [...]
I’ll Be a Keynote Speaker at This Weekend’s Winter Conference of the Association for Humanistic Psychology
I’m very pleased to tell you that I’ll be a keynote speaker at this weekend’s winter conference of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. I’ll be speaking on social justice as it relates to both Humanistic Psychology and Buddhism. If I can make a recording easily, I may post it here in the future. Find out more [...]
My Open Letter to Mr. Neil Nguyen and the Little Saigon 2013 Tet Parade Committee
Over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion last week I posted a copy of an open letter I wrote to Mr. Neil Nguyen and the Little Saigon 2013 Tet Parade Committee in response to the committee denying the Partnership of Viet Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Organizations’ request to march in the 2013 Tet [...]
I’m Quoted in the Great Joshua Eaton’s Latest HuffPo Article
My friend Joshua Eaton has a new article up over at The Huffington Post, entitled “Minority Religions Absent at Obama’s Inaugural Prayer Service”. I’m quoted in it alongside some admirable thinkers and leaders. As with his other work, you don’t want to miss this piece by Joshua. I hope you’ll take a look. You can read [...]
Watch the Full Video of Me in Conversation with Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ [ALOUD] Series
So I had a pretty amazing evening two weeks ago: I was honored to serve as moderator for an event with Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, True Grit, Tron) and Zen master Bernie Glassman for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ [ALOUD] series. It was a joyful, hilarious, warm, and often profound experience for [...]
Another Semester Begins!
Today a new semester starts at University of the West, where I work as an assistant professor and Coordinator of the Buddhist Chaplaincy Department. Over the weekend, one of our students posted the above picture on Facebook; it shows a large group of our monastic students returned to campus. As you can imagine, it brought [...]
I’m on Pinterest Now
“So I’ve got that going for me…which is nice.” Please follow me if you’re into this sort of thing.
Check Out My Five Favorite Dharma Books and Films of 2012 at My Patheos Blog
In the spirit of all the end-of-the-year lists on the internets and in magazines and periodicals, I decided to list my five favorite dharma books and films of 2012 over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. You can read the dharma book list here, and the film list here. I hope you will take [...]
My First Climate Reality Presentation Gets Written Up in Cerritos College’s Talon Marks
Talon Marks — the student newspaper of Cerritos College — did a nice little write-up about my very first Climate Reality presentation, which I did on their campus back in November. You can read the article here. As I’ve previously mentioned in a post for my Patheos blog, I am a trained and certified Climate Leader with [...]