New Humanist: Ideas for godless people

Articles by subject: Buddhism

Tibet's small exercise in democracy (by Isabel Hilton, November/December 2010 )
Tibet must find a secular alternative to being led by a dalai lama … said the Dalai Lama to Isabel Hilton
Free from crooked things (by Karen Connelly, May/June 2007 )
Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom
Sand for the thirsty (by Sanal Edamaruku, January/February 2007 )
Conversion to Buddhism is no solution to the evils of India's caste system, says Sanal Edamaruku
Trapped by Buddha (by Jamyang Norbu, July/August 2005 )
It's not just China that is preventing the emergence of a modern Tibet. Western romantic delusions are just as stifling, argues novelist Jamyang Norbu
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