Heroes

Review of Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi and Why the Dalai Lama Matters

One Taste

Sharon Louise Crayton's One Taste is a cross between a meditation manual, a travel guide to the world, and a cookbook.

David Guy on the Zen of Writing

In this exclusive web interview, author David Guy talks about his practice, the state of Buddhist publishing, and his novel Jake Fades.

Web-Exclusive Interview with Author Roland Merullo

Web-exclusive interview with Rolan Merullo, author of Breakfast with Buddha, on writing about spirituality.

Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight

Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker, long-time editors of the long-running Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind, have just published The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight. Chris Faatz offers a nice review of the book at Powells.com:

Lama Zopa on Caring for Your Animals

Rinpoche had these general suggestions for ways students could care for pets in everyday life and at their death.

Street Yoga

Street Yoga founded in 2002 and offers free yoga, meditation, and wellness classes to homeless youth and to youth at risk of being homeless.

A Great Master’s Simple Goodbye

Review of Footprints in the Snow: The Autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist Monk by Master Sheng Yen.

A Lineage of Yoginis

Review of When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty by Hildegard Diemberger.

Book Briefs Fall 2008

Books Briefs from Fall 2008.