The Healing Buddha

Reflection: Fire and Buddha Image

Declarative Debugging with Buddha

Haskell is a very safe language, particularly because of its type system. However there will always be programs that do the wrong thing. Programmer fallibility, partial or incorrect specifications and typographic errors are but a few of the reasons that make bugs a fact of life. This paper is about the use and implementation of a debugger, called Buddha, which helps Haskell programmers understa...

Gotama Buddha and Religious Pluralism

Buddhism currently enjoys the reputation of being one of the leading voices in a chorus that sings the praises of religious tolerance and perhaps even of pluralism. It is open to question, however, whether this reputation is deserved. The purpose of the present article is to examine whether the teachings of classical Buddhism have a contribution to make to the jubilation over religious pluralis...

The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light

The Reconstruction of the Great Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan

In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 1800 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They measured 53 and 35 meters in height and the Great one figured as the tallest representation of a standing Buddha worldwide. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the de...