Alex Studholme reviews Roger Jackson’s new work, a guide to the Buddhist treatment of rebirth and also the way this idea has been received by modernity.
Reviews
Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism
Alex Studholme reviews Ruth Gamble’s survey and analysis of the Tibetan tulku system and the life and works of the Third Karmapa.
A Review of In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey of the Bardos of Living and Dying
Have you ever felt like chucking your usual job and trying something entirely new? Have you ever had the urge for a grand adventure where you could switch identities? Have you ever had the thought of stealing away without telling anyone in the middle of the night? If these questions sound compelling, read this account of a life changing experience!
Holy Madmen – A Review of Two Books
Reviews by Alex Studholme of David DiValerio’s ‘The Holy Madmen of Tibet’ and Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse’s guide on approaching a Vajrayana master, ‘The Guru Drinks Bourbon?’
Book Review – Buddhahood in This Life
Book Review of Buddhahood in This Life, Translated by Acharya Malcolm Smith
with foreward by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche published by Wisdom Publications, 2016. The review was written by Jacqueline Gens.
Grande Fortuna In Bhutan
This film follows the pilgrimage made by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu to Bhutan in 2014 through cities, temples, valleys and sacred places, between mountains more than 5,500 meters high
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Jacqueline Gens reviewed Goldstein’s Mindfulness, A Practical Guide to Awakening, which is a commentary and treasure trove of information by someone who has spent most of his life in formal meditation under the severest conditions found in Burmese and Thai monastic vicars…
Review of The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma
In the history of Indo-Tibetan tantric Buddhism, the figure of the mahāsiddha, or sorcerer-saint, has been a trusted archetype for study and veneration because so many sincere practitioners in India, Tibet, and Bhutan have had access to the visionary opportunity of utpattikrama,….