About thinkBuddha.org

Welcome to thinkBuddha.org. This website is a personal project run by me, Will Buckingham. I set up the site way back in 2005 whilst I was working on my PhD in philosophy, and the site ran for five years as a blog that aimed to explore aspects of Buddhist thought. Currently I am hard at work redesigning the site, ready for a relaunch in Mid-January 2011.

The articles on this site are all, in different ways, responses to the various traditions of Buddhism, or to other questions seen in the light of these traditions. I tend to see the reflections and thoughts on this blog as “Buddhish” – that is to say, more or less Buddhist, or somewhat saffron-tinged – rather than strictly “Buddhist”. In other words, this is not necessarily an orthodox reading of Buddhist doctrine and practice, and sometimes the articles here are only tenuously connected with hard-core Buddhist teachings. I hope that the articles on this site might stimulate thought and reflection, but it is not my intention that they should be seen as Buddhist “teachings”.

Most of the content on this site is very much work-in-progress. I see the various things that I write here more as wayside markers than as fully-formed (and perfectly defensible) positions. And given that the things I’ve written here have all been written over a period of years, they may not all reflect my present position.

If you want to find out more about my writing – when not working on thinkBuddha.org, I write philosophy, fiction and children’s books, and lecture at De Montfort University – then go to my personal website at willbuckingham.com.

This website runs using the wonderfully elegant textpattern. The design draws upon a heavily modified theme originally by David Kohout.

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