Synopses & Reviews
Leading voices of Buddhism discuss issues and ideas important to Buddhists in the twenty-first century.
Twenty-First-Century Buddhists collects the very best of the round-table discussions recorded in the pages of Buddhadharma magazine for over a decade. These conversations between a who’s who of contemporary Buddhist teachers, ranging over topics from student-teacher relationships to the place of prayer and the leadership roles of women in modern Buddhism, are always lively and insightful. With participants such as Bhante Gunaratana, Shohaku Okumura, Sharon Salzberg, John Tarrant, and Jack Kornfield, discussions equally represent old-school and newly emergent Buddhist traditions.
Contributers include:
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Jack Kornfield
Joseph Goldstein
David R. Loy
Robert Thurman
Yongyey Mingyur Rinpoche
Anne Carolyn Klein
B. Alan Wallace
Taigen Dan Leighton
Andrew Olendzki
Reginald Ray
Ringu Tulku
and many more.
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“An exceedingly rich and useful resource for broadening, deepening, and further contextualizing one’s practice and understanding.”
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“What wonderful conversations to be privy to! Here we observe respected longtime practitioners engage their wisdom with meaningful areas of inquiry. They offer examples of the clarity and compassion each of us must employ to open to and embody the teachings and the practices of contemporary, living Dharma.”
About the Author
Melvin McLeod attended the National Defence College of Canada, the country's highest institution for the study of domestic and international affairs. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Shambhala Sun magazine and Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Journal. He is also the editor of the Best Buddhist Writing collections. He has spent his life studying politics; he took a degree in political science, including a period of study in Washington, and has covered political stories in his capacity as a journalist. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.