The Buddha’s still relevant and still misunderstood. Further reflections on the experience of writing Gautama Buddha: the Life & Teachings of the Awakened One. Part 3 of an email interview with Will Buckingham on the ThinkBuddha blog Part 1 | Part 2 ...
Sangharakshita, the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order died on 30th October 2019, aged 93. This is an ‘official’ obituary, which I wrote well in advance of the event, plus a talk I gave at the Cardiff Buddhist Centre on the evening of the day he...
As Mark Zuckerberg announces that he plans to give away 99% of his vast fortune, what is the value of generosity and can it really make us happy? Although I’m a Buddhist, my family still celebrate Christmas in a secular sort of way. I enjoy it on the whole, but...
Following recent discussions of the need to integrate meditation practice, here is an interview with Gil Fronsdal is an innovative teacher in the Insight Meditation Movement. Vishvapani met him in Palo Alto California, some years ago, where his students were forming a...
When the Buddhist writer and philosopher, Stephen Batchelor, published Verses From the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime I met him to discuss his new poetic translation of a seminal text by Nagarjuna that explores the seemingly mysterious subject of emptiness...
