Lion's Roar

The Rice Seedling Sutra

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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 […]

Book Briefs for Winter 2016

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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 Spring 2016

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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, […]

Book Briefs for Winter, 2015

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Rory Lindsay reviews “A Historical Atlas of Tibet,” “The Buddha on Wall Street,” “Buddhisms: An Introduction,” “The Chan Whip Anthology,” and more.