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Book review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mindfulness (Anne Ihnen and Carolyn Flynn) »

You know mindfulness has gone mainstream when there's an Idiot's Guide to it.  I admit that I approached this book with a good bit…

Book review: Buddha: His Life and Teaching (Walter Henry Nelson) »

There are a wide variety of books published about the life of the Buddha.  Nelson's is a well-researched and nicely written commentary that makes …

Book review: The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology (Thich Nhat Hanh) »

Thich Nhat Hanh's prose is as elegant as his poetry.  The World We Have is his latest book; in it, he includes deep ecology under…

Book Review: Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering (Phillip Moffitt) »

Dancing With Life is an exploration of the little known Twelve Insights related to the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism.  Broken into four "books"…

Book Review: The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology (Jack Kornfield) »

This latest offering from meditation teacher and psychologist Jack Kornfield presents an interesting unification of East and West in what seems to be becoming…

Review: The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America (Bhante Walpola Piyananda) »

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A. is a collection of stories that Piyananda, the abbot of Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara, uses to illustrate how…

Book review: The Way of the Buddha: The Illustrated Dhammapada »

This book from Harry N. Abrams books, is an absolutely gorgeous presentation of the complete text of F. Max Muller's 1881 translation of the…

Book Review: Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body by Reginald Ray, Ph.D. »

The premise of this recent work by Reggie Ray (interviewed by Waylon last March) is that for all that meditation does, it doesn't go…

Buddhism vs. Speed: Busyness is Laziness, by Dr. Reggie Ray. »

"Busy-ness is Laziness," by Dr. Reggie Ray, from elephant journal's Autumn 2005 issue. Life emerges out of the silence of our inner being. The life…

Denise Thornton: the Dharma of Cancer. »

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply…

Christianity & Buddhism: What Would Jesus Do? Live with Compassion! »

From THE BOOK MINISTRY OF HEALING by Mrs. E.G. White - copyright 1909. "A Path to Genuine Compassion" via Andrew Dalby, from the Spring…

The Mahasiddha and His Idiot Servant: Chogyam Trungpa’s Butler’s Bio »

GURUJI'S MR. JEEVES   Called the most important spiritual teacher of the 20th century, Chögyam Trungpa catalyzed the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism from his devastated country to the…

Post-Beat, Feminist Poet Anne Waldman: The Jack Kerouac School, Ginsberg, Buddhism and Imagination »

"The Proclamation of Truth is Fearless: A Conversation with Anne Waldman" from the Spring 2006 issue.    Anne Waldman is a giant among men. The youngest…

Shambhala Buddhism’s Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche: relationships, loneliness & “Ruling Your World.” »

Photo by Corey Kohn "What about You/What about Me: A Conversation with Sakyong Mipham" from the Spring 2006 issue of elephant journal. Sakyong Mipham…

Bhutan: Pilgrimage to the Last Buddhist Kingdom, via Frank Berliner »

     ~ via Frank Berliner, professor at Naropa University and senior student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. From elephant's Spring 2006 issue. OCTOBER 7 &…

The Basics of Sitting Meditation: Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche’s Dathun Letter »

In 1973, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa introduced a month- long period of meditation called dathün, which he recommended to all of his students.…

Red Olympics Torch Relay ends with a Final, Brave, Futile (?) Protest. »

Bird’s Nest Banner Action - Aug. 6, 2008    BBC reports that four foreignershave been arrested in Beijing for scaling 120-foot light poles and unfurling 140…

Quote of the Week: Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist Teacher: “Pride is Humility is Genuineness.” »

Real Humility Is Genuineness  Humility, very simply, is the absence of arrogance. Where there is no arrogance, you relate with your world as an…

A Poem for Super-Lucky Children by Buddhist teacher Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. »

Photo courtesy Chronicle Project. Fortunate Birth   In the kingdom of children Every one of you is this child, An innocent being Who jumped…

Buddhism is Non-Theistic; Buddhists aren’t (”oh, the Karmapa’s sooooo amaaaaazing!”) »

As a lifelong Buddhist, everywhere I look in Buddhaland, lately—covers of Buddhists magazines, posters for sale, cards, photos in Buddhist gift shops—I see the handsome,…

elephant’s choice: Best Meditation Cushions. »

Want to sort out your mind, throw out the clutter, be happier, saner, more yourself? No, this ain't a pharmaceutical commercial...it actually is possible…

Review: Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World »

Review: Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World Professor Robert Thurman The day…

Robert Thurman @ elevision: Free Tibet, July 23 @ historic Boulder Theater. »

Extra, Extra, Readallaboutit! Professor Robert Thurman—Dalai Lama's righthand man, famous American Buddhist teacher & Uma's Dad—will appear for an interview and booksigning at the…

Dr. Jules Levinson »


Saving Tibetan Language and Culture.

Review: What Do Buddhists Believe? »

This is a great book for anyone interested in checking out Buddhism, or to pass on to those friends or family members who ask…

If there is no soul, can Buddhism (in Japan) die? »

According to this NYTimes article by Norimitsu Onishi, many Japanese no longer find Buddhism or Buddhist traditions, such as elaborate funeral rites, relevant. The…

Rothbury Interview with Drew Emmitt: My Favorite Buddhist Mandolinist. »

The Emmitt Nershi Band at Rothbury. I like the sound of that...Buddhist mandolinist. But I am getting ahead of myself. I had the opportunity…

If Life is Illusory, Is Death Real? Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on how to be with the Terminally-Ill. »

Searching for Buddhist quotes on how to work with death and imperpanence, I ran across this quote on how to communicate with the terminally ill.…

Robert Thurman featured in NY Times Sunday Magazine. »

Readallaaboudit. (Professor Robert Thurman, father of Uma, will headline our upcomin' elevision at the Boulder Theater).…

elephant journal: The Union of Body, Speech and Mind: A Conversation with Cyndi Lee »

Our story begins, some say, 4,000 years ago when a tradition called yoga originates, in a faraway country called India. 2,500 years ago, another…

Buddhism and Activism: Teenagers Get Off the Cushion and Into the World »

“Wisdom is what keeps fearlessness from becoming aggression, and gentleness from becoming weakness.” ~ the Shambhala teachings.  I am what some call a generic Dharma…

“Mind Writing Slogans,” via Beat Buddhist Poet Allen Ginsberg: How to Write. »

"Definitions, A Preface." from elephant journal's Winter 07/08 issue.  Chögyam Trungpa remarked, "Writing is writing the mind," thus the title. Ground, Path, and Fruition…











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  • The Dhamma Brothers: East meets West in the Deep South

    The Dhamma Brothers: East meets West in the Deep South