In Silicon Valley, you are always an iPhone’s throw from a Buddhist. Some of them will have arrived at their Buddhism the usual way—family, culture—but a fair few will have adopted it later in life, ...

Anthony Clark speaks Mandarin fluently, studied in Beijing, and taught tai chi and kung fu for more than 15 years. Students can pop into the Whitworth University professor's office anytime to practice ...

Though this is an uneven book with odd, icy patches of mannered prose and needlessly sensationalistic riffs it demonstrates Wagner s range as a writer, reminding us, after the embarrassing and ...

The Robe and the Sword is not only about Buddhism or Asia. It is about how sacred ideas are reshaped by modern politics, how ...

David Guterson was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism at a young age via childhood neighbors. “By the time I was 17 or so, I was really interested in Tibetan Buddhism and that’s basically where this book ...

In The Robe and the Sword, Sonia Faleiro shows how Buddhist revivalism and majoritarianism have been historically intertwined ...

Zen Buddhist priest and longtime teacher Hagen makes his central point emphatically and repeatedly throughout this book: Buddhism is about direct experience, not about the thoughts people habitually ...

Twenty-three years ago, when Ravikumar and I came up with the idea of starting a publishing house to be a vehicle for Ambedkarite ideas, we were looking for a name. Many names were considered and set ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Eastern Buddhist carries articles on all aspects of Buddhism as well as English translations of classical Buddhist texts and ...

Sonia Faleiro’s The Robe and the Sword explores the rise of Buddhist extremism across Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Thailand, examining how religion becomes intertwined with nationalism and power ...