The Spring 2019 issue of Buddhadharma is available now. Preview the magazine contents and sample articles below.
Features
Can Buddhism Meet the Climate Crisis?
David Loy makes clear what Buddhism offers in the face of climate change.
Lessons of the Gandharan Manuscripts
Dr. Richard Salomon shares the discovery of scrolls in Gandhara that raise questions about what we think Buddhism was in its earliest days.
Don’t Let Hatred Destroy Your Practice
His Holiness the Dalai Lama takes an in-depth look at how we can work with anger and hatred.
Your Liberation Is On the Line
Rev. angel Kyodo williams shares why we must each fully commit to our own path liberation, for the benefit of all.
In the Moments of Non-Awakening
Larry Yang takes an honest look at what it means to be a dharma teacher who hasn’t been, and doesn’t imagine ever being, enlightened.
The Natural World Is a Powerful Teacher
Elizabeth Monson invites us to consider how the natural world might be a teacher.
Departments
Commentary
Konjin Gaelyn Godwin / The Way of Repentance
Ask the Teachers
Q: Dedicating merit is a beautiful idea, but what effect, if any, does it really have? — Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Nikki Mirghafori, and Gyokei Yokoyama respond.
Reviews
A Critique of Western Buddhism by Glenn Wallis; Review by Annabella Pitkin
American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity by Ann Gleig; Review by Justin Whitaker
Book Briefs
Reviews by Rory Lindsay
Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built, by Jessica Marie Falcone
The Magnanimous Heart, by Narayan Helen Liebenson
Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism, Science and the Paranormal, by by David E. Presti
Early Buddhist Teachings, by Y. Karunadasa
In Moonbeams of Mahamudra, translated by Elizabeth Callahan
Zen beyond Mindfulness, by Jules Shuzen Harris
Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism, by Matteo Pistono
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