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Sarah Conover

Sarah Conover is a writer and teacher who, despite a fierce wanderlust, calls Spokane home. She has an MFA in poetry, and is the author of seven books on world wisdom traditions and spirituality. She and husband Doug Robnett are parents of two remarkable children long-ago nicknamed: “Swaminathan and the Material Girl.” Conover, getting old now, has enjoyed multiple careers. The best one yet is the latest: teaching creative writing, a course called “Making it Matter," to the eldering through Spokane Community College ACT 2 program. She hosted the Ask a BuddhistFāVS column for several years.

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A religion can be a system of faith and collection of beliefs; a religion can also be a pursuit or interest to which someone...

Ask A Buddhist: Is Buddhism a religion?

A lot of Buddhist practitioners in the West don’t care to quibble about defining Buddhism as a religion or not.

Sarah Conover

Sarah Conover holds a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies from the University of Colorado, a degree in education from Gonzaga University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.

Ask A Buddhist: What is karma?

I’d be a fool persuading any reader to accept a definitive answer to this question, because there’s theory — lots of it — and then there’s personal experience, the learning of karma’s truth over time.

Ask A Buddhist: Why do Buddhist nuns have more rules to follow than Buddhist monks?

Why do female Buddhist monastics have so many more rules to follow than the men?

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"Because nothing exists as an individual entity, because nothing exists without benefiting from myriad forces and conditions that sustain its life, to harm any...

Ask A Buddhist: Why don’t Buddhists kill things? What do Buddhists think of abortion?

I’ve combined three questions from three different readers, because a response to one overlaps with responses to all. In short, engaging in violence or harm of any sort directly counters the aim of all Buddhist practice: the aspiration to end suffering.

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