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Buddhist perspectives on society and culture

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Buddhist perspectives on
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Music, Meaning and Mantra

24 May 2021

Ratnaguna interviews Advayacitta about the importance and meaning of music in general, and in particular of the chanting of mantras. You can listen the song from Beethoven’s opera Fidelio that Advayacitta and Ratnaguna discussed here.

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The Burden of Guilt

24 October 2023

In this, the first in a series of short reflections on his work as a clinical psychologist, Advayacitta considers the phenomenon of irrational guilt

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Climate of Fear

3 August 2023

Advayacitta begins to explore the history of climate change politics. He investigates the cultural context within which preoccupation with global warming developed. It was a context notable for its intense fear of disasters.

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