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 What a day for news! Even in worlds I don't follow, barriers breaking!

Spring in New York is often like a long novel whose middle section seems endless and then, suddenly, you're in the last pages. Not to c...

For Alumni Day, faculty were invited to give brief presentations of our work - and by brief they meant one minute ! A sort of variety show...

Some of the powerful work in the Brooklyn Museum of Art's exhibition   " Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties ." G...

I've let the parsley plant which survived when everything else died last summer do what it wants to do, and - inspired perhaps by all S...

A friend in Berkeley found this out walking today. She thinks it must be a hummingbird nest. Wow!

We're getting to the point in learning Chinese where its apparent straightforwardness and simplicity give way to something else entirel...

The eastern horizon as seen from the new Faculty and Staff Lounge in the University Center. You can't go out on the green, though...

Well, were we ever experimental in "Buddhism and Modern Thought" today. Could it be that we were "Zen" too? Our focus ...

Therein lies a tale... barley risotto, too!

Today's symposium of the Princeton Buddhist Studies Workshop on dāna was lots of fun. A roomful of interesting Buddhologists, from all ...

Oh, the pleasures (and stretches) of the generalist! I'm going up to Princeton this afternoon to participate in a day-long symposium t...

  Once again , an amazing show of tulips, in every shape and variety (including the multi-ply ones that seem to have taken the city by st...

Don't think that I have abandoned the effort to provide an accompaniment to "Buddhism and Modern Thought" of musical works. T...

The courtyard trees really are dancing into summer through the same colors they'll go through on their way out. Red; yellow; green. ...

It's been a little while since anyone's mentioned my poor little Job biography. (It feels like more - attention is addictive, an...

As we near the end of Buddhism and Modern Thought, we finally have a syllabus! Well, we've reached the point where no further updatings...

A student I've gotten to know quite well over several courses is a Dance major, and a work she choreographed was shown at the recent sh...