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The Land of Many Dharmas

May 13th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff

While the vast majority of the approximately 500 million Buddhists in the world live in Asia, one fascinating aspect of Buddhism in America is that, for the first time in nearly the entire 2,600 years of Buddhism’s history, all the major Buddhist denominations in the world today coexist in one country


The Bhagavata Leans Left

April 8th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff

Irrespective of its theological, philosophical, or literary features, the Bhagavata provided and still provides significant resources for potentially revolutionary social change


Remembering Karṇāmṛta dāsa

February 11th, 2021 | by Harmonist staff

A longtime friend of the Harmonist, Karṇāmṛta dāsa passed from this world on February 9, 2021 at 6 PM (MST). Below we share several remembrances and appreciations from Harmonist staff and writers


America’s Caste System

September 7th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff

In that moment, Martin Luther King Jr realized that the land of the free had imposed a caste system not unlike the caste system of India, and that he had lived under that system all of his life. It was what lay beneath the forces he was fighting in the


Racism and White Christianity

June 22nd, 2020 | by Harmonist staff

By Daniel Burke, originally published at CNN. Growing up in the South, Robert P. Jones attended Southern Baptist churches, Sunday &hellip


Failing to Adapt After COVID-19

June 18th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff

Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, the prominent naturalist Jane Goodall has warned


Nonhuman animals and COVID-19

May 18th, 2020 | by Harmonist staff

Unless human beings get into our proper relationship with animals, similar pandemics are almost surely guaranteed to be a constant in our future



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