Gautama Buddha: paperback and new website
Gautama Buddha: the Life and Teachings of the Awakened One is now out in paperback, published by Quercus at £8.99. There's also a new website for the book including all the reviews, talks, interviews and articles associated with it
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Review in the AREIAC Newsletter
"Excellent ... thorough, carefully researched and well-written ... A very readable and impressive account of one of the world’s most important religious leaders." Paul Hopkins reviews "Gautama Buddha" for the Association of Religious Education Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants: AREIAC Newsletter, Autumn, 2011
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What the Buddha means … for me & the world
Reflections on the experience of writing Gautama Buddha: the Life & Teachings of the Awakened One, and the continuing relevance - and continuing misinterpretations of the Buddha. Part 3 of an email interview with Will Buckingham on the ThinkBuddha blog
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The Buddha, Nature & Politics
In the second part of this interview with Will Buckingham on the ThinkBuddha blog, we discuss the place of nature in the Buddha's life, his relationship with politics and the modern resonance of these subjects
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Legend & History in the Buddha’s Life
Here's Part 1 of an email interview with Will Buckingham of the ThinkBuddha blog about my book, Gautama Buddha: the Life & Teachings of the Awakened One. It explores why I wrote the book and how I approached the distinction between legend and history in the Buddha's life
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Secular Buddhist Reviews ‘Gautama Buddha’
This review of 'Gautama Buddha', my biography of the Buddha by Stephen Schettini appears on the website of the Secular Buddhist Association. "Vishvapani Blomfield’s Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of the Awakened One is one of a new breed of Buddha biographies..."
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Video: Seeking the Buddha in History
The Buddha of history is not the same as the archetypal Buddha, but we can come close to him through the words he left behind and though imagination. This was a keynote talk at the 2011 Triratna Buddhist Order Convention and reveals the Buddha to be a man of humour and intelligence with an uncanny gift for communication as well ... and something more as well
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Seeking the Buddha in History
The Buddha of history is not the same as the archetypal Buddha, but we can come close to him through the words he left behind and though imagination. This article was a keynote talk at the 2011 Triratna Buddhist Order Convention and reveals the Buddha to be a man of humour and intelligence with an uncanny gift for communication as well ... and something more as well
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Vishvapani
I’m a writer and teacher of Buddhism, mindfulness & meditation based in Cardiff. My biography of the Buddha is just out. 