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    Summer Reading 2001 Paid Member

    Ralph SteeleVipassana teacher and director of the Life Transition Institute,Santa Fe, New Mexico Living Dhammaby Ajahn Chah (Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, 1992)A spirited, open-hearted guide on the path. Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change: A Positive Psychology for the Westby Mark Epstein (Broadway Books, 2001)A meeting of the two worlds of dharma and psychotherapy. The Wings to Awakening:An Anthology from the Pali Canonby Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Buddha Dharma Education Association, 2000)A scholarly treatment of the dharma, but very accessible to the beginner Silent Rainby Ajahn Amaro (Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery)An enjoyable insight into training the mind through the Theravada Forest tradition. More »
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    'Phantom Moon' by Duncan Sheik Paid Member

    By Dimitri Ehrlich
    Phantom MoonDuncan Sheik Atlantic/Nonesuch, 2001 In 1996, when Duncan Sheik released his first album, he made success look easy. But soon there was a backlash, and when his second album failed to sell as quickly as the first, skeptics were quick to pronounce him a one-hit wonder. Some of his strengths wotked against him: The very fact that radio stations had embraced his first single, "Barely Breathing," with such runaway enthusiasm undercut the idea that he might be considered a serious songwriter. Then there was the matter of his movie-star good looks. When you're working in Bob Dylan's territory, handsomeness can erode credibility faster than an endorsement for Kmarr. More »
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    'Himalaya' by Eric Valli Paid Member

    By Mary Talbot
    HimalayaKino International, 2001Directed by Eric Valli109 minutes, in Tibetan with English subtitles When Eric Valli, a photographer for National Geographic, author, and documentarian, got the urge to film a salt caravan in the Dolpo region of Nepal, he wanted, he says, to pay homage to an extraordinary culture on the verge of transformation by the encroaching tides of tourism and modernity. But the prospect of shooting for months at fifteen thousand feet made the project seem like More »
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    Books in Brief Fall 2001 Paid Member

    Letting Go:The Story of Zen Master Tosui Translated, with an introduction by Peter HaskelUniv. of Hawai'i Press: Honolulu, 2001 184 pp.; $19.95 (paper) Here is the first translation of Menzan Zuiho's Tribute, the biography of eccentric Zen master Tosui Unkei. Tosui abandoned the religious establishment after thirty years of srudy to lead an itinerant life among the common people of seventeenth-century Japan. The volume is enhanced by twenty original woodblock prints from the 1768 edition. The Places That Scare You: More »
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    'A New Religious America' and 'The Transformation of American Religion' Paid Member

    By Sarah Sloane
    A New Religious America:How a Christian Country Has Become the World's Most Diverse Nationby Diana L. EckHarperSanFrancisco, 2001320 pp.; $26.00 (cloth) The Transformation of American Religion: The Story of a Late-Twentieth-Century Awakening by Amanda Porterfield Oxford University Press, 2001 262 pp.; $27.50 (cloth) More »
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    Aural Transmission Paid Member

    By Joan Duncan Oliver
    In the cacophonous world of audio publishing, a sixteen-year-old Coloradobased company, Sounds True, is a clear voice of dharma. Its list includes nearly every English-speaking Buddhist teacher of note and this fall, Sounds True is offering its entire Buddhist inventory in a new catalog, Dharma Talk, that mixes feature articles and staff recommendations with product descriptions. The handsomely packaged audio sets include new programs by Stephen Batchelor (Buddhism Without Beliefs), Mark Epstein (What the Buddha Felt), Tara Brach (Radical Self-Acceptance), and Natalie Goldberg with her Zen teacher, Dosho (Zen Howl). More »