Category: Buddhist Books
David Guy on the Zen of Writing
In this exclusive web interview, author David Guy talks about his practice, the state of Buddhist publishing, and his novel Jake Fades.
Web-Exclusive Interview with Author Roland Merullo
Web-exclusive interview with Rolan Merullo, author of Breakfast with Buddha, on writing about spirituality.
Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight
Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker, long-time editors of the long-running Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind, have just published The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight. Chris Faatz offers a nice review of the book at Powells.com:
A Great Master’s Simple Goodbye
Review of Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk by Master Sheng Yen.
A Lineage of Yoginis
Review of When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty by Hildegard Diemberger.
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
The New Buddhists
Review of Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan by Richard Madsen.
We Think, Therefore We Are
Review of The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why, by Richard E. Nisbett.
Higher Powers
Review of Faith in the Halls of Power by D. Michael Lindsay and From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic edited by J. Matthew Wilson.
Rethinking Ritual
Review of Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen, Buddhist Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright.
