Category: Buddhist Books
The Great Shooting Way
Review of Zen Bow, Zen Arrow: The Life and Teachings of Awa Kenzo, the Archery Master from Zen in the Art of Archery.
The Other Side of the Postcards
HIMALAYA: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge, and Hope. Edited by Richard C. Blum, Erica Stone, and Broughton Coburn.
A Very Public Hermit
ECHOING SILENCE: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing. By Thomas Merton, edited by Robert Inchausti.
The Poetry of Authentic Presence
A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar, by Thinley Norbu. Reviewed by Steven Goodman.
Book Briefs Winter 2006
Taking the Path as the Result; Dogen on Meditation and Thinking; The Platform Sutra; The Mirror of Zen; Songs and Instructions of the Karmapas; and more.
Analyzing Enlightenment
Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures: Essays on Theories and Practices and The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra reviewed by Mark Epstein.
Book Briefs Fall 2006
Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes, A Song for the King, Hakuin on Kensho, Honen the Buddhist Saint, Zen Master Who?, Quintessential Dzogchen, and more.
Review of “Encountering the Dharma”
Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism by Richard Hughes Seager, reviewed by Martin Baumann.
Review of “The Madman’s Middle Way”
The Madman’s Middle Way: Reflections on Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendün Chöpel by Donald S. Lopez Jr., reviewed by Felix Holmgren
Book Briefs Summer 2006
The State of Mind Called Beautiful; Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief; Zen in Brazil; Dzogchen Teachings; On Buddha Essence; Explaining Pictures; and more.
Review of “No Time to Lose”
"No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva" by Pema Chödrön, reviewed by Roger Jackson.
Review of “The Women of the Way”
The Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist Wisdom by Sally Tisdale, reviewed by Roko Sherry Chayat.
Gene Smith’s Mission
Lawrence Pintak profiles Gene Smith, the man from Ogden, Utah who single-handedly spearheaded the preservation of thousands of Tibetan texts.
When Men Were Men
The message is that it's fine for women to stray from sexist roles and play around with life on the other side, as long as we come back to our senses.