Once Upon a Time – Storytelling as a Means of Healing and Social Reconnection
Sarah C. Beasley
10 May 2022
Storytelling as a way of reframing our lives and transcending barriers
Book Review: Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World
Raymond Lam
26 April 2022
There is perhaps no concept more central to the Buddhist worldview, yet more misunderstood and misused in modern parlance, than rebirth. His Holiness the Dalai
Book Review: The Taming of the Demons: From the Epic of Gesar of Ling
Raymond Lam
7 April 2022
Despite the dominance of Vajrayana in the Western Buddhist imagination, the national epic of Tibet, The Epic of Gesar of Ling, is not well known.
The Poetry of Compassionate Wisdom
Tilly Campbell-Allen
6 April 2022
Cultivating a mind of compassionate wonder in our children and ourselves
Book Review: Pure Land: History, Tradition, and Practice
Raymond Lam
15 March 2022
Charles B. Jones has recently published a slate of vastly informative publications on the Pure Land tradition. In 2019, the associate professor of Religion and
Words of My Perfect Teacher: The Classic Text by Patrul Rinpoche Translated into Bulgarian
Lyudmila Klasanova
21 February 2022
An interview with Bulgarian Scholar Yavor Konstantinov on his translation of Patrul Rinpoche’s timeless work
Mindfulness Made Real – A Review of Ratnadevi’s Bringing Mindfulness to Life
Justin Whitaker
17 February 2022
This new book from a masterful storyteller and teacher is not only about mindfulness, but also about living fully
“An Amazing, Wondrous Moment”: Tibetan-born Musician and Artist Dechen Shak-Dagsay’s emaho
Raymond Lam
19 January 2022
Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a Swiss-Tibetan musician and author. Over the past few decades, she has built a career in music by combining the Tibetan mantra
The International Buddhist Film Festival Returns! A Conversation with Gaetano Maida
Buddhistdoor Global
28 December 2021
After a hiatus of two years, the International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF) returned for three days from 9–12 December. There were nine premieres from seven
Book Review: Xuanzang: China’s Legendary Pilgrim and Translator
Raymond Lam
27 November 2021
Xuanzang is the most famous of China’s Tang-era monk-pilgrims. He has enjoyed an outsize literary impact on the trajectory of Chinese Buddhism and the presentation
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Seven
Alena Eckelmann
17 November 2021
An interview with the makers of the video documentary Shugendo Now.
Book Review: Douglass Smith’s A Handbook of Early Buddhist Wisdom
Justin Whitaker
15 November 2021
Making the path of the Mahāmaṅgala Sutta clear for a contemporary audience