Dorothea Franck reviews Louise Landes Levi’s translation of RASA: Or Knowledge of the Self, by French poet, writer and critic René Daumal
Reviews
An Atlas of the Tibetan Plateau
Giorgio Dallorto reviews cartographer Michael Farmer’s magnum opus, the fruit of a lifetime of study and research, recently published by Brill.
Rebirth – A Guide to Mind, Karma, & Cosmos in the Buddhist World
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.
Book Review – Wisdom Rising by Lama Tsultrim Allione
Jacqueline Gens reviews Wisdom Rising – a Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine by Lama Tsultrim Allione is a multi-layered chronicle of the feminine principle and its importance for both personal and global evolution of the planet at this moment in time. – Jacqueline Gens
Interconnected – Embracing Life in Our Global Society
Alexander Studholme reviews Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje’s 2017 publication on 21st century Buddhist ethics
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,….