Book Review: Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
5 September 2023
Nachaya Campbell-Allen explores Paul Dennison’s remarkable new book on jhana meditation.
Book Review: The Making of American Buddhism
Hozan Alan Senauke
26 August 2023
Hozan Alan Senauke explores the insights and implications for Buddhism in the US raised in a remarkable new book by Scott A. Mitchell
“Compassion Is How to Begin, Wisdom Is How to Develop, and Dignity Is How to Be”
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
8 August 2023
Nachaya reviews Awakening Dignity: A Guide to Living a Life of Deep Fulfillment by Phakchok Rinpoche and Sophie Wu
In a Moment, in a Breath: 55 Zen Meditations from Roshi Joan Halifax
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
5 July 2023
Reviewing a new deck of meditation cards from a revered Zen teacher
Book Review: The Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
22 May 2023
A doorway to the wisdom of Chan patriarch Dahui Zonggao
Book Review: The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
29 April 2023
Lojong: a Buddhist approach to mind training
Book Review: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
24 March 2023
A revised and updated edition of Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s landmark text
Book Review: That Is Not Your Mind! Zen Reflections on the Surangama Sutra
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
3 February 2023
An invitation to think deeper and wider, and to engage in the conversations that this sutra inspires.
Book Review: Talking Zen by Alan Watts
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
16 December 2022
A compilation of lectures pertaining to the nuts and bolts of living Zen
Book Review: Zen Master Tales: Stories from the Lives of Taigu, Sengai, Hakuin and Ryokan
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
24 November 2022
Translated tales of wisdom and insight from Japan’s Edo period
Book Review: The Ruby Rosary: Joyfully Accepted by Vidyadharas and Dakinis as the Ornament of a Necklace by Thinley Norbu
Sarah C. Beasley
22 November 2022
Looking into a commentary on a work from Dudjom Rinpoche, one of the 20th century’s greatest Tibetan Buddhist teachers
Book Review: How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chödrön
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
21 October 2022
Pema Chödrön sets out a guide to the one guarantee we are all given in life