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.
Rory Lindsay
Recent Articles
El largo debate sobre el vegetarianismo en el Tíbet
En su reseña de "The Faults of Meat" (Los defectos de la carne), de Geoffrey Barstow, Rory Lindsay examina las poco conocidas enseñanzas sobre el vegetarianismo en el budismo tibetano.
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
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. Spoken by the bodhisattva Maitreya, it recounts a teaching that the Buddha had given while gazing at a rice seedling. “Whoever sees dependent arising…
Buddhadharma Book Briefs for Winter 2018
Rory Lindsay reviews "Spontaneous Creativity," by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, "In the Cool Shade of Compassion" by Kamala Tiyanavich, and more.
Book Briefs for Winter 2016
We review "When Awareness Becomes Natural," "Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara," "Passing Through the Gateless Barrier," and more.