Category: Buddhist Books
Lion’s Roar March 2024 Book Reviews
You don’t have to be perfect to create positive change. Jessica Little reviews eight inspiring new books.
Read an excerpt from Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method
An excerpt from Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method by Rebecca Li — as reviewed in the Winter 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide.
Read an excerpt from Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman
An excerpt of Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman, by Sojun Mel Weitsman — as reviewed in the Fall 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide.
Read an excerpt from The Buddhist Tantras: A Guide
An excerpt from The Buddhist Tantras: A Guide by David B. Gray— as reviewed in the Winter 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide
Read “Mere Perception in Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses” from Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogācāra Buddhism Matters
An excerpt from Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogācāra Buddhism Matters by William S. Waldron — as reviewed in the Winter 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide
Read an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka
An excerpt from Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, by Neena Mahadev— as reviewed in the Winter 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guide
Read “A Teachers Return to the Valley of Renewal” an excerpt from Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
An excerpt from Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard.— as reviewed in the Winter 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Guiden
Lion’s Roar November 2023 Book Reviews
How do we transform suffering into happiness? Bonnie Nadzam surveys new books that are helping to show the way.
Buddhadharma on Books: Fall 2023
Joie Szu-Chiao Chen reviews seven new books for the Fall 2023 issue of Buddhadharma.
Joseph Goldstein: It’s Not Either-Or
In this conversation with Buddhadharma, the Insight Meditation Society cofounder applies the “harmonized understanding” approach championed in his book One Dharma to the idea of buddhanature. In the end, it’s not about who’s right or wrong about it. It’s about what leads us to less clinging.