Joshua Eaton, Religion Dispatches: When I showed up the room at Harvard Divinity School was already overflowing. World-renowned professors were…
Rocket News 24 (Japan): What do you think of when you hear the word Zen? For most people, “organized religion”…
William Wilson Quinn, Washington Post: American Buddhism’s numbers are booming. Published just over three years ago, an American Religious Identification…
As a long-standing Western Buddhist, my curiosity was piqued by this book. Work, sex and money are crucial issues to…
The Buddha Walks Into A Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation is the literary debut of 28…
Unique perspective on controversial Tibetan lama’s life and teachings skews toward the reverential. Well before American Buddhists and New Age…
Rebel Buddha, by Ponlop Rinpoche, is an exploration of what it means to be free and how it is that…
Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the most influential and respected western teachers in the Zen tradition, has passed away. I…
Trungpa Rinpoche was a deeply flawed man, but an inspiring teacher. A new book gives Suriyavamsa a chance to reflect…
A new “allegorical documentary” about Western perceptions of, and misconceptions about, Buddhism, looks to be very interesting. The following is…