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    A Dream-Over at the Rubin Museum of Art Paid Member

    By Caitlin Van Dusen
    On a recent Saturday evening, 80 people with pajamas peeking from beneath their overcoats filed down West 17th Street in New York City and slipped through the doors of the Rubin Museum of Art. In the lobby, tea lights flickered and soothing music played. In the galleries above, great works of Himalayan art awaited the guests, who would spend that night sleeping— and, hopefully, dreaming—in their shadows. More »
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    How Hinduism Seeped into American Soil Paid Member

    By Dana Sawyer
    American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation—How Indian Spirituality Changed the WestPhilip GoldbergHarmony Books, 2010416 pp.; $26.00 cloth More »
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    Books in Brief Paid Member

    By Tracy Cochran
    THE MEANING OF LIFE FROM A BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE H.H. the Dalai Lama. Translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. Illustrated by Gina Halpern. Wisdom Publications: Boston, 1992. 111 pp. $12.50 (paperback). More »
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     BUDDHISM BETRAYED? Religion, Politics, ond Violence in Sri Lanka Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992. 238 pp. $14.95 (paperback).   Joanna Macy More »
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    Books in Brief Paid Member

    By Stuart Smithers
    History of Indian Buddhism: from the Origins to the Saka Era By Etienne Lamotte. Translated by Sara Webb-Boin, under the supervision of Jean Dantinne. Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain: Louvain, 1991. 870 pp. $95.00 (paperback). ETIENNE LAMOTTE (1903-1983) was a renowned scholar of Buddhism and disciple of La Vallee-Poussin, the founder of the Belgian school of Buddhist studies. His international reputation as an editor and translator of Mahayana texts is beyond question. However, the crowning achievement of his long and distinguished career will always be his Histoire du Buddhism Indien (1958), now available in Sara Webb-Boin's translation. More »
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    'Ram Dass: Fierce Grace' by Mickey Lemle Paid Member

    By Caitlin Van Dusen
    Ram Dass: Fierce GraceProduced and directed by Mickey Lemle2001, 93 minutesIn February of 1997, spiritual leader and teacher Ram Dass suffered a massive stroke, leaving him with a mild speech disorder and partial paralysis. In this feature-length documentary, director Mickey Lemle intersperses scenes of Ram Dass's life today with footage from his past. ''I've been stroked," Ram Dass says repeatedly. The film is an effort to explore what this means. As Lemle arcs between past and present, the feeling conveyed is one of steady reassurance. We witness how Ram Dass has used the challenges life has presented to deepen his exploration of the nature of consciousness and his reverence for the strength of human spirit. More »