Perry Garfinkel, longtime New York Times contributor and author of the 2006 national bestseller Buddha or Bust and 2024’s Becoming Gandhi (published in five countries), will lead a spiritual travel writing workshop the weekend of Aug. 21-23 at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Sign up: https://kripalu.org/experiences/spiritual-travel-writing
Perry Garfinkel
Recent Articles
How to Write About a Spiritual Journey
Journalist and author Perry Garfinkel reflects on the first travel journal he ever kept and explores how transformative journeys become stories worth telling.
The Gandhi Experiment
Perry Garfinkel shares his bold attempt to live by Mahatma Gandhi’s principles in today’s complex world.
Harold Ramis didn’t intend “Groundhog Day” to be Buddhist, but it’s a dharma classic
Harold Ramis created an underground Buddhist classic with Groundhog Day. After a chance meeting, Perry Garfinkel ventures to find out what makes him tick.
Politics of a Still Mind
Perry Garfinkel offers an appreciation of the deep personal realization behind Thich Nhat Hanh's philosophy of Engaged Buddhism.