Zen at War revealed to people in the West the extent of Buddhist collusion with the Japanese War Effort in WW2. This article explores the issues that raised with the book’s author, Brian Victoria by Vishvapani When dawn broke over Pearl Harbour on 7 December...
in his life before Buddhism, Issan Dorsey was a ‘bad drag queen’. But at the San Francisco Zen Centre he was a bodhisattva for a gay community blighted by AIDS. This excellent biography vividly evokes his extraordinary life. What...
David Brazier discovered Buddhism in the 1960’s and followed it as a personal spiritual quest and an outlet for his social idealism. The New Buddhism challenges the views of many western Buddhists, proposing a focus on the earliest Buddhist teachings and social...
This book gives a rare insight into two leading western Buddhist movements: the Tibetan-derived New Kadampa Tradition and the Zen Buddhist Order of Buddhist Contemplatives Buddhism has come to the West in numerous forms. There is its impact on popular culture, the...
The Norwegian mass murderer meditated to numb his emotions. The effect of any practice depends on our values this was written as a Guardian Comment is Free post. See the Guardian CIF discussion here Meditation makes you calmer and clearer and encourages empathy and...
