Rev. Danny Fisher

My pal and editor Waylon Lewis responds to this and other questions over at his elephantjournal.com. Let him know what you think.

I leave bright and early tomorrow for Los Angeles, CA, where I will start my new job as the Interim Coordinator of the Buddhist Chaplaincy Program at University of the West this Monday. I’m excited, humbled, a little scared, and feeling pretty lucky. I seem to have found myself in what Lloyd Dobler would call “a dare-to-be-great situation.” Here’s hoping I can actualize all this motivation to benefit beings in this position.

“Torture awaiting those who sin in this lifetime.” Photo by Stephanie Mee for the Phnom Penh Post.
Via the wonderful James Shaheen over at the Tricycle Editors’ Blog: The Phnom Penh Post reports on the “macabre images” of the Buddhist hell realm that surround Cambodia’s Wat Mondul Seyma, which is outside Koh Kong near the Cambodian-Thai border. Macabre, but also very striking–take a look.

Over at his blog Dharma Folk, Arun takes a stab at answering the question. He makes good cases for the correctives he offers to the Pew Forum’s flawed survey, but his arguments are also ripe for critical reflection. (For example, I would certainly question the assumption that the number of Spanish speakers who identify as Catholic is equal to the number of non-English-speaking Asian American Buddhists.) What do you think?