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Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people
made anxious by churches...
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Do you know about the book? Not Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible. That’s yesterday’s scripture. Believer, Beware: First Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, featuring the best of Killing the Buddha's first incarnation, is forthcoming from Beacon Press. Buy it, thump it, burn it – that’s what scripture’s for, right? Or, better yet, write your own.
KtB is seeking submssions.
Would you like to submit to us?
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illustration by W. David Powell
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Mothers
November 11, 2008
by Greg Bottoms
On learning to inhale, and a breeze of insignificance. Another excerpt from Greg Bottoms' new book, Fight Scenes. |
Kung Fu Dharma
November 11, 2008
by Diana Winston
The journey from Vipassana to Kickyourassana.
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Proof Enough for Me
November 5, 2008
by Nathan Schneider
When the ususal proofs for God don't do the trick, sometimes you need to come up with your own. |
Translator's Note
November 5, 2008
by Peter Manseau
A lapsed Catholic discovers the magnificent God of his disbelief in a Yiddish library. An excerpt from KtB founder Peter Manseau's new novel.
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(Dis)Integrating Church and State
October 28, 2008
by Gordon Haber
Someone might be tinkering with God's voting machine. |
Forgiving
October 4, 2008
by Laurel Snyder
An open apology to Sarah Palin.
Really.
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the buddha is back.
June 2008--Since this site was first created in 2000, the unholy love child of Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau and Jeremy Brothers, religion stories have made it -- to glossy magazines covers, the babble of the blogosphere, and the bestseller list. But Killing the Buddha is still the only place for brazen stories of belief -- lost and found and lost again.
Earlier this year, KTB was left behind -- for real children, great books and magazines that pay. But three new Buddha killers, initiates in the anti-tradition, have stormed the empty palace. We offer ourselves, among these hallowed and heretical pages, as your humble editors. Ashley Makar is praying that KtB will help her keep one foot out of the ivory tower; Meera Subramanian is guerrilla gardening in edens and underworlds while looking to the heavens for falcon gods; and Marissa Dennis is performing midrash at the intersections of borderlands and bodies. The Buddhas keep popping up on the road, right around the next bend, blinded by your headlights. We're here to help you lay on the gas, for free.
Join us as we spread the Word. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Poke us on Facebook.
Let the show begin. Again.
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