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Community: Members of the Soka Gakkai International in the Western Cape attend a Friendship Day to celebrate connection and compassion through art and culture.
BUDDHA

God edition: ‘Together we can change the country’

The time is now to deepen the bonds of trust and friendship we share with others and to bring forth all our wisdom and strength for the welfare of our communities

  • Loren Braithwaite-Kabosha
5 min read
BUDDHISM

Together we determine destiny

Buddhist humanism offers a way for us to change the destructive path the world is on

  • Loren Kabosha
6 min read
A visit to Chichu is not a prescriptive experience. There is no overriding message for which visitors must brace. Instead, there is light, space, and quiet. (Getty Images)
ART

Chichu Art Museum: ‘A site to rethink the relationship between nature and people’

A visit to Japanese art island Chichu is both a meditation and an education

  • Julian Meyrick
5 min read
In Cape Town, hungry residents receive hot food from volunteers of the Lavender Hill Sport and Recreation Foundation. (Marco Longari/AFP)
BUDDHISM

Believe in the goodness of humankind

In this time of disaster, caused by a zero-sum approach to politics, economics and life, a Buddhist belief in the sacredness of all may save humankind

  • Loren Braithwaite-Kabosha
7 min read
Othering stereotypes: Refugees, mainly Chinese, in the ruins of Inchon, a port that was invaded by United States forces during the Korean War. According to Edward Said, the binary relationship of strong-West and weak- East is reinforced through racialised cultural stereotypes. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images)
ANTI CHINESE

Why we need to dismantle the East-West hyphen

Hyphenated identities: Why can’t I be just ‘South African’; why do I need to be ‘South- African Chinese’?

  • Loraine Law Yuen
6 min read