Links and Resources
New York Times article of December 1 on the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The Guardian article of August 7, 2008, about terrorism in India.
New Yorker article of August 13, 2007, about lasting wounds of Indian partition.
Pankaj Mishra video interview.
The Believer interview of March 2007, about everything.
This site at Colorado State University presents English translations for the 14 edicts that the Ashoka had inscribed on rock pillars throughout India.
BuddhaNet features an artful presentation of the chronological history of Buddhism.
A downloadable PDF (1581 kb) provided by the Buddha Dharma Education Association that provides a thorough look at the historical legacy of this often overlooked Indian emperor. Read the section on the edicts Ashoka had engraved on stone pillars for a more thorough understanding of the rulers change in philosophy.
Site presents the eight ways to end the suffering of human experience, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama.
The complete text of Adam Smith's seminal seminal work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which covered concepts such as the role of self-interest, the division of labor, the function of markets, and the international implications of an unregulated, free enterprise economy.
An April 2000 report submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture that concluded that China continues to engage in widespread and systematic violations of the Torture Convention in Tibet.
In this essay, Beliefnet columnist Dinty W. Moore takes the basic principles of Buddhism and compares them with the aggressive commercialism of the Disney machine.
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Pankaj Mishra is an Indian journalist and author of several books, including An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the British newspaper The Guardian.
