by Vishvapani | May 11, 2015 | Buddhism in the West, Featured, Reviews
What does Buddhism have to say about our society and how can it become a force for social change? The Buddha on Wall Street What’s Wrong with Capitalism and What We Can Do about It Vaddhaka Linn, Windhorse Publications,, Cambridge, 2015, ISBN: 9781909314443 ...
by Vishvapani | May 16, 2013 | Buddhism, Reviews
Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom By Rich Hanson and Richard Mendius New Harbinger Publications, 2009 There is a buzz around the application of neuroscience to meditation. It works in a couple of ways: meditators are being...
by Vishvapani | Jan 23, 2013 | Buddhist World, Reviews
Two rival candidates currently claim the position of Karmapa, leader of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. The controversy has split the school and prompted a flurry of books describing the conflict. But what is really going on in this dispute, and why have...
by Vishvapani | Sep 1, 2012 | arts, Reviews
David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten is a novel for the interconnected, globalised times in which we are buffeted among billions; it offers not so much an answer as a neural network of thought, not so much an argument as ideas whirring like minds, and interacting like...
by Vishvapani | Aug 25, 2012 | Buddhism in the West, Reviews
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...
by Vishvapani | Jun 5, 2012 | Buddhism, Buddhist World, Reviews
China will soon possess the world’s largest economy, and cultural influence will follow economic power. Martin Jaques argues in his book ‘When China Rules the World’ that this change will shape the next century. But what does it mean for the future...
