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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Ag dul isteach na coillte dorcha

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Sílim go mbeadh uaireanta crua liomsa go minic. Tá brón orm go leor, ach deánaim iarracht chun nascadh le dóchas, a cháirde. Léigh mé an oir...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

"Thinking myself into certitude"

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I've spent much of the past month reading up on Soka Gakkai's Buddhism. This advocates a self-actualizing, pragmatic, and this-w...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Richard Hughes Seager's "Encountering the Dharma": Book Review

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This sympathetic survey of "Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism" combines a personal narrative ...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Hammond & Machacek's "Soka Gakkai in America:" Book Review

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How does a Japanese "new religious movement" replicate the Reformation, as it exports a global Buddhism bent on world peace, self-...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Richard Causton's "The Buddha in Everyday Life": Book Review

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After evaluating three scholarly studies of Nichiren Buddhism, I compared this insider's version aimed at inquirers. Causton was Soka Ga...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Wilson & Dobbelaere's "A Time to Chant": Book Review

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I didn't expect such an engrossing, engaging sociological survey of British "votaries" of this Buddhist self-actualizing, libe...
Monday, December 19, 2011

David Machacek & Bryan Wilson's "Global Citizens": Book Review

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This collects scholarly articles on Soka Gakkai's Japanese, reformed Buddhist ethos and worldwide expansion. Most of the pieces, therefo...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Daniel Montgomery's "Fire in the Lotus": Book Review

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This erudite but thoughtful survey looks at Japan's contribution to religious unity and global harmony--amidst seven hundred years of di...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Chistin na Dolly West: leirmheas beag

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Fhreastail muid an dráma seo ag scriobh le Proinsias Mac Aonghusa faoi deireanach. Tá sé faoi comhlinti go leor ar feadh an dara chogadh dom...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Alexander Theroux's "Estonia": Book Review

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" A collapsing tiny box-set of a republic that is dark as a cave in winter, shit-cold for most of the year, a strange ignored dorp with...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Péter Nádas' "Parallel Stories": Book Review

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Robert Musil, early last century, tried to bring a modernizing and warring Central Europe into a massive work; he left its second volume unf...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Ride's "Nowhere": Music Review

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A buzz surrounded the twentieth anniversary of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and Nevermind by Nirvana this year. Certainly both albums r...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Fall's "Ersatz G.B.": Music Review

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With a studio album each year since the punk era broke, I was wondering, as this year neared its close, if The Fall would deliver its annual...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Magazine's "No Thyself": Music Review

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The titular pun, allusive and mocking, literate and "classic" in at least a double sense, typifies this pioneering post-punk band...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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