An interview with one of the central Buddhist-monk leaders of the 2007 Saffron Revolution of Burma, and his colleague Ashin Kovida, conducted in Mae Sot at the Best Friend Library, March 2011. We discussed the nature of the post-2007, and post 2010-election, resistance movement, what kinds of response to current conditions the movement is taking, [...]
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“The Pen is Sharper than the Sword” an interview with King Zero and Ashin Kovida
Posted in interview on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘Walk On’? I’m Staying: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Revolution of the Heart: an interview with Alan Clements
Posted in Burma material, interview on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In 1995 to 1996 Alan Clements, an American former monk in the Burmese Buddhist tradition, entered Burma to record dialogues with the lately-freed democracy icon and legitimate leader of the country, Aung San Suu Kyi. These dialogues were published as the “The Voice of Hope” in 1997, reissued in 2008. Today, in October 2010, Daw [...]
Satori in Paris – an interview with BeingOrdinary.org
Posted in audio interview, Buddhist philosophical, Burma material, interview on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This audio interview with Mike Kewley (in Paris, August 2010) from the eclectically superlative www.beingordinary.org, discusses some broad dimensions of Buddhist and ‘trans-Buddhist’ social awareness and daily-life practice with a view to collective social transformation. It considers how the dharma extends beyond a purely religiously-grounded ethical rationale, to embrace a larger secular spiritual vision as well, while still [...]
