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Rory Lindsay

About Rory Lindsay

Rory Lindsay is an editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha and a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, where he lectures on Tibetan religions. He is also the Inner Asia area editor for the Religious Studies Review. He received his doctorate in Tibetan studies from Harvard University, and was Buddhadharma’s reviews editor from 2013–18. His new book, Agency and the Afterlife in Tibetan Buddhism, is forthcoming in 2021.

The Longstanding Debate over Vegetarianism in Tibet

by Rory Lindsay| June 16, 2020

The Longstanding Debate over Vegetarianism in Tibet

In his review of Geoffrey Barstow’s “The Faults of Meat,” Rory Lindsay examines the little-known teachings around vegetarianism in Tibetan Buddhism.

The Rice Seedling Sutra

by Rory Lindsay and 84000| April 6, 2020

The Rice Seedling Sutra

Spoken by the bodhisattva Maitreya, the Rice Seedling Sutra is one of the most important Buddhist sutras on the topic of dependent arising, the basic Buddhist doctrine that everything depends on something else for its existence. Introduction by Rory Lindsay. The Rice Seedling Sutra is one of the most important Buddhist sutras on the topic […]

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Winter 2018

by Rory Lindsay| November 29, 2018

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Winter 2018
Photo by Radu Marcusu.

Rory Lindsay reviews “Spontaneous Creativity,” by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, “In the Cool Shade of Compassion” by Kamala Tiyanavich, and more.

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2018

by Rory Lindsay| May 15, 2018

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2018

Rory Lindsay reviews “Training in Tenderness ,” by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “Wisdom Rising” by Lama Tsultrim Allione, and more.

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2017

by Rory Lindsay| August 16, 2017

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Fall 2017

Rory Lindsay reviews “Catholicism and Zen” by Richard Bryan McDaniel; “The Life of My Teacher” by the Dalai Lama, and more.

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2017

by Rory Lindsay| May 19, 2017

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Summer 2017

Rory Lindsay reviews “The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi,” “The Suttanipata,” “Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism,” and more.

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2017

by Rory Lindsay| February 23, 2017

Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Spring 2017

Rory Lindsay reviews “The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony,” “For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems,” and more.

Book Briefs for Winter 2016

by Rory Lindsay| November 10, 2016

Book Briefs for Winter 2016
Painting of Indian monk Vasubandhu.Indian monk and philosopher Vasubandhu, 4-5th century. Source unknown.

We review “When Awareness Becomes Natural,” “Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara,” “Passing Through the Gateless Barrier,” and more.

Book Briefs for Fall 2016

by Rory Lindsay| August 11, 2016

Book Briefs for Fall 2016

Rory Lindsay reviews “Dream Yoga,” “Gods of Medieval Japan,” “The Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism,” and more.

Book Briefs for Spring 2016

by Rory Lindsay| March 16, 2016

Book Briefs for Spring 2016

David M. DiValerio’s The Holy Madmen of Tibet (Oxford 2015) examines some of Tibetan history’s most fascinating figures. Diving straight into the grotesque for which these fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Kagyu “madmen” became known, DiValerio begins by describing Tsangnyon Heruka’s use of human remains as clothing and Drukpa Kunle’s verse about paying homage “not to the Buddha, […]

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