Blog Profile / Rev. Danny Fisher
| URL : | http://dannyfisher.org/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Religion / Buddhism | |
| Posts on Regator: | 979 | |
| Posts / Week: | 7.2 | |
| Archived Since: | November 5, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Wisdom Publications’ The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work (Which Includes a Chapter Authored by Me) is Now Available!
I’m very happy to share with you all that Wisdom Publications’ upcoming volume The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work, edited by Harvard Divinity School profs Cheryl A. Giles and Willa B. Miller, and for which I have contributed a chapter, is now available for purchase! You can buy [...]
A Petition and a Statement
Over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion this week I posted about a petition to the American Academy of Religion that I signed and a joint Buddhist-Muslim statement that I officially endorsed. Take a look — if you’re an AAR member, you’ll definitely be interested in the petition (which you can still sign); and if [...]
Liberation Through Sight: The Gaden Tsawa World Peace Tour Comes to UC-Irvine
Liberation Through Sight: The Gaden Tsawa World Peace Tour comes to the University of California at Irvine this week. If you’re in the Southern California area, don’t miss it. (Information is below — just click to enlarge.) The event is co-sponsored by our friends at the Buddhist Association at UC-Irvine (BAUCI). I’ve been honored and delighted to [...]
Half the Sky on PBS
A while back, I posted about reading Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, and a dharma talk I delivered that was inspired by it. I have no doubt that it’s the most important subject I’ve ever addressed in a dharma talk, and that Half the Sky is one [...]
Check Out My Buddhadharma Report from Amnesty International’s Town Hall in Washington, DC, with Aung San Suu Kyi
I still can’t quite believe what happened last week: I was in our nation’s capital with Amnesty International, my pal Joshua Eaton, and others for a very special event with none other than Daw Aung San Suu Kyi herself! As a practitioner who has long been an admirer of “the Lady,” as well as a [...]
Please Take a Look at the Entire “Human Rights and Film” Mini-Course at My Patheos Blog
As I previously mentioned, I’ve been hosting another social media mini-course on “Human Rights and Film” at my Facebook fan page. The course is over, but I’ve put all the material from it into a post for my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. Please take a look and let us know what you think! Regular readers might remember [...]
Remembering the Late Min Bahadur Shakya….
I’m very sad to report that Mr. Min Bahadur Shakya, a titan in the field of Buddhist Studies and the father of one of the best friends I’ve got, passed away last week. A mathematician; the director of Nepal’s Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods; and author of (among others) the indispensable Iconography of Nepalese, Dr. Shakya [...]
Please Give a Listen to the Latest Secular Buddhist Podcast — A Roundtable with Charles Prebish, Sarah Haynes, Justin Whitaker, and Me
The latest episode of The Secular Buddhist Podcast has dropped, and I think you should give it a listen: it’s a roundtable conversation with host Ted Meissner; my friends Chuck Prebish, Sarah Haynes, and Justin Whitaker; and me. The title, which makes clear reference to a theory about disparate American Buddhist communities that is often [...]
Lincoln
I’ve posted about my family’s dear friend Tony Kushner many times at this blog. Tony, as many of you probably know, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Angels in America), Oscar-nominated screenwriter (Munich), stage director, and activist. Show More Summary
Please Join Our Latest Social Media Mini-Course on “Human Rights and Film”
As regular readers might remember, I’ve fiddled with social media mini-courses on Twitter. Inspired by our friend and past interviewee Stephen Prothero, the goals of my mini-courses “Religion and Film” and “Buddhism and Film” were really one and the same: to offer some preliminary information about religious studies topics using new media and art. I [...]
Check Out Scott A. Mitchell’s Piece about Buddhism, Tiger Woods, and the Media (Featuring the Work of a Couple of Us UWest Professors) for The Journal of Global Buddhism
I’ve blogged many times before about my e-pal Dr. Scott A. Mitchell (@djbuddha), who serves on the faculty of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (among many other things), and is perhaps best known to Buddhist blog readers as the author of the the buddha is my dj and co-host (with Rev. Harry Bridge) of the wonderful DharmaRealm podcast. I [...]
Download My “Journeys” Piece from the Latest Issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly for Free Right Here
I’m very pleased to tell you that something I wrote will fill the “Journeys” section of the Fall 2012 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. An updated and somewhat improved version of a piece I wrote for the Upaya Newsletter‘s April 20th, 2009 issue, I was quite surprised when my editor at the Shambhala Sun [...]
“We Know What Happens Next”
As I watched news of the terrible events that unfolded at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin yesterday, I first practiced and prayed, and then I began to write and write. I ended the day with something I felt comfortable sharing, and I’ve published it over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. I hope you’ll [...]
An Open Letter from the Buddhist Community on Islamophobia
I’m very proud to have been able to help my friend and two-time past interviewee Joshua Eaton put together this open letter from Buddhist teachers and scholars and others on Islamophobia… http://buddhistletteronislamophobia.wordpress.com/ We were motivated by recent news reports out of Burma and Thailand, as well as by the month of Ramadan. Show More Summary
I Got Interviewed by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review!
The title says it all. You can check out the wonderful Emma Varvaloucas’s interview with yours truly at Trike’s official blog.
Please Check Out My New Interview with Heshima Kenya’s Alisa Roadcup Over at My Patheos Blog
Please check out my brand new interview with my dear friend and former Naropa University classmate Alisa Roadcup, Director for U.S. Advocacy and Development for Heshima Kenya, at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion. In addition to being a great pal, inspiration, and colleague of this author (as well as a past interview subject), Alisa was Formerly [...]
Please Check Out My Article in the Special Buddhist Chaplaincy Issue of The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society from February 2012
This has been quite a busy year for me so far, lemme tell ya. So it’s little wonder than I hadn’t even noticed until today that an article I wrote for The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society was published back in February. It’s a special issue devoted to “Buddhist Chaplaincy,” and my contribution is a [...]
We Did It!
On the same day that the above, beautiful picture was taken, I’m very pleased to report that I met the goal for my U.S. Campaign for Burma fundraising campaign! I set my sights high, and many of you came through with generous donations. Now I have a dharma talk to write about “the Lady” above! [...]
Help Me Be a “Burma Champion”
Every June the U.S. Campaign for Burma, an organization I support, asks its members to host fundraising events to help “ensure that the voices of the people of Burma get amplified and addressed on a global level.” I have never done this before…until now! Please consider contributing to my fundraising campaign, which will ultimately lead [...]
Please Check Out My New Interview with Tsoknyi Rinpoche at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online
Please check out my brand new interview with His Eminence the Third Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online. Rinpoche is the guiding teacher of the Pundarika Foundation, and author of the books Carefree...Show More Summary