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Summer Reading: some recommendations
Wes Nisker author of Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publications, 2000) I'm reading Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change, by John Briggs and F. David Peat (Harper Perennial Library, 2000), as well as a novel called Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, by Gina Barkhordar Nahai (Washington Square Press, 2000), and a memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers (Simon & Schuster, 2000). As for Buddhist books, I'm continually dipping into The Words of My Perfect Teacher, by Patrul Rinpoche (Shambhala Publications, 1998). Dr. Mark Epstein author of Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (Broadway Books, 1998) More » -
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Books in Brief
BURTON WATSON, an occasional professor at Columbia University and a regular resident of Japan, is a prolific and masterful translator of Chinese and Japanese. His earliest works appeared in the sixties and were translations of Chinese classics, ranging from the Records of the Grand Historian of China (Columbia University Press, 1961) to The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu (Columbia University Press: 1968). But in addition to translations of histories, prose, and Taoist texts, there are at least half a dozen publications of Watson's translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, all of which remain in print. More » -
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Book Reviews
BUDDHISM, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER Edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon. State University of New York Press: Albany, 1992. 241 pp. $16.95 (paperback). SERINITY YOUNG JOSE IGNACIO CABEZON has brought together an intriguing collection of essays on gender and sexuality in Buddhism by first-rate scholars. As most of them point out, the bottom line in Buddhism is that ultimately gender does not ma tter. Yet Buddhist history, culture, texts, and symbols, to name a few of the topics�More » -
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Buddhism And Yoga
Mindfulness Yoga:The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and MindFrank Jude BoccioBoston: Wisdom Publications, 2004341 pp.; illustrated; $19.95 (paper) Yoga Body, Buddha MindCyndi LeeNew York: Riverhead Books, August 2004320 pp.; illustrated; $15.00 (paper) The Tibetan Book of Yoga: AncientBuddhist Teachings on the Philosophyand Practice of YogaMichael RoachNew York: Doubleday, 2004114 pp.; illustrated; $15.95 (cloth) Sneaking Hatha Yoga into a Buddhist practice used to be a guilty pleasure, like nibbling a secret stash of chocolate during a meditation retreat. In recent years, however, that attitude has begun to melt away, as these two practices—long separated by geography and sectarianism—cross-pollinate in the Western spiritual landscape. More »
