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📕 Yosano Akiko and *The Tale of Genji* (A free, 193-page book from 2000)

Tags: #Genji #ImperialJapan #Translation
Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
> Texts are more amenable to alteration than people.
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February 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM
🗣️ Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam (A ✨NEW✨, free, 61-minute podcast)

Tags: #Vietnamese #EngagedBuddhism #Charity #Zen #Buddhist
Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam
> Today you have to understand charity if you want to understand Buddhism.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:47 AM
☸️ A Heap of the Unwholesome (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2012)

Tags: #Wisdom #BuddhaQuotes #Motivation
AN 5.52 Akusalarāsi Sutta: A Heap of the Unwholesome
> Bhikkhus, saying ‘a heap of the unwholesome,’ it is about the five hindrances that one could rightly say this.
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February 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
📖 Human-Animal Interaction at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh (A free, 339-page thesis from 2022)

Tags: #Animals #Buddha #Archeology
Human-Animal Interaction at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh
Examination of animal remains at a site in Eastern India shows a sharp decline in the number of animals killed there after the introduction of Buddhism and Jainism.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM
📕 Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion (A free, 128-page book from 2016)

Tags: #RightSpeech #World #Mind #Communication
Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
This short book lays out the scientific argument for the simple assertion that people expect statements to be true, showing that honesty is, truly, a universal, human norm.
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February 8, 2026 at 4:54 AM
🆓 The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (A free resource from 2000)

Tags: #Tibet #Himalayas
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
A large collection of short writings and media on a variety of Tibetan cultural topics.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:23 AM
📼 The Advantages of Dyslexia (A free, 7-minute video from 2023)

Tags: #Feeling #Neuroscience #Intelligence
The Advantages of Dyslexia
> The people with dyslexia proved significantly faster at recognizing the impossible figures.
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January 31, 2026 at 4:20 AM
📰 Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History. (A free, 33-page article from 2005)

Tags: #USA #JapaneseBuddhism #Modern
American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism: Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History.
> This essay focuses on Albert J. Edmunds, a British-American Buddhist sympathizer, and it considers the ways that Western occult traditions, especially Swedenborgianism, moved back and forth across the Pacific and shaped the work of D. T. Suzuki.
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January 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
📰 Religions Derive Their Power from Authentic Spiritual Depth (A free, 3-page article from 1985)

Tags: #Modern #Zen #Religion
Religions Derive Their Power from Authentic Spiritual Depth
> Ultimately, then, religions derive their power from the depth of their spirituality. The power of Zen, for example, flows out of Tokusan's "Thirty Blows" or Rinzai's "Katsu!!!" or Jōshū's "Mu" ("Emptiness"). The power of Jodo Shinshu also originates from one single point of absolute depth: from the nembutsu.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:02 AM