Dr. Scott teaches on the Blue Ridge and Dahlonega campuses. He is editor (with Gregory S. Moss) of The Significance of Indeterminacy: Perspectives from Asian and Continental Philosophy (Routledge, ...

An introduction to Buddhist philosophy and the concept that life involves suffering.

In East Asia, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s death and entrance into final enlightenment in February. But at my local Zen temple in North Carolina, the Buddha’s enlightenment is commemorated during ...

It’s hard to put your finger on the point when the Western stereotype of Buddhist meditation flipped. It was sometime between the 1950s, when Zen Buddhism seeped into the beat generation, and the ...