Archive
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Articles
Intimate Relationships as Buddhist Practice
Sīlavādin Meynard Vasen (e-book)
To Calm the Ruffling of Robes: Using Methods from Biblical Exegesis to Understand Ven. Ñāṇavīra’s and Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Rival Interpretations of paṭicca- samuppāda
Mitrānanda Roger Farmer (e-book)
Sangharakshita and the Five Niyamas: A Case of Buddhist Modernism
Dhīvan Thomas Jones (e-book)
Reviews
'The Case of the Snow-Leopard-Skin Backpacks': Johan Elverskog, The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia | reviewed by Dhīvan Thomas Jones (e-book)
'Starting to Assess Sangharakshita': Robert Ellis, The Thought of Sangharakshita: A Critical Assessment | reviewed by Sīlavādin (e-book)
'Buddhist Women’s Voices': Alice Collett, I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism | reviewed by Dānasamudrā (e-book)
'Buddhism – a revealed religion?' a re-appraisal of Peter Masefield, Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism (1986) | reviewed by Mitrānanda Roger Farmer (e-book)
'Nothing if not thorough about nothing': Brad Warner, The Other Side of Nothing (2022) | reviewed by Stephen Lumb
'The God Function': Robert M. Ellis, Archetypes in Religion and Beyond (2022) | reviewed by Dhivan Thomas Jones
Self/Not-Self
Articles
Sīlavadin – 'A Range of (No-)Self Views'
Dhīvan Thomas Jones – 'Three Ways of Denying the Self'
Mitrānanda – 'The Direct Jhānic Path to Liberating Insight'
Reviews
'Jew + Buddhist = JewBu': Emily Sigalow, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change – reviewed by Agi Erdos
'More Than An Introduction': Bhikkhu Anālayo, Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises – reviewed by Dharmacārī Ālokadhāra
'Being-Fully-Here Hiking': Christopher Ives, Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage – reviewed by Vidyādevī
Articles
Jayarava Attwood – The Spiral Path or Lokuttara Paṭicca-samuppāda
Dhīvan Thomas Jones – Through a Blue Chasm: Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Buddha on Imagination
Joe Gaziano and Jacquie Lewis – All Beings are Equal but Some are More Equal than Others: Buddhism and Vegetarianism in the U.S.
Dharmacārī Satyadhāna (Kevin Schanilec) – The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness (Cūḷasuññata- sutta, Majjhima-nikāya 121): translation and commentary
Reviews
(in the process of being archived)
Editorial – Dharmacārī Jñānaketu
Articles
Poisoned Pen Letters? D.T. Suzuki's Communication of Zen to the West – Dharmacārī Nāgapriya
Roman Buddha – William Ferraiolo
Buddhism and Rights: the Example of the Karuna Trust – Dharmacārī Ādarśa
The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra – Dharmacārī Jayarava
Stages of the Path: Stream-entry and Beyond – Dharmacārī Bodhiketu
The Strange Case of Beni Barua and the Therī Dhammadinnā – Dharmacārin Sāgaramati
Notes
A Note on Robert Bluck and the FWBO – Urgyen Sangharakshita
Book Reviews
Mark Williams et al, The Mindful Way Through Depression – reviewed by Dr Paramabandhu Groves
David Loy, Money, Sex, War, Karma – reviewed by Dharmacārī Nāgapriya
Ralph Flores, Buddhist Scriptures as Literature – reviewed by Will Buckingham
Aung San Suu Kyi & Alan Clements, The Voice of Hope – reviewed by Dharmacāriṇī Munīṣā
Selections from the Pāli Canon – reviewed by Dhīvan Thomas Jones
Donald Lopez, Buddhism and Science – reviewed by Dharmacārī Ratnaprabha
Alexander Wynne, The Origin of Buddhist Meditation – reviewed by Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi
Richard Gombrich, What the Buddha Thought – reviewed by Dhīvan Thomas Jones
Articles
Jñāṇavīra – A Mirror for Women? Reflections on the Feminine in Japanese Buddhism
Abhaya – Letters of Gold: Imagery in the Dhammapada
Panos Skiotis – Postmodern Ethics: A Buddhist Response
Michael Attwood – Suicide as a Response to Suffering
Nāgapriya – The Early Buddhist Saint: A Psychological Portrait
Manishini Alice Collett – Kamma in Context: The Mahākammavibhaṅgasutta and the Culakammavibhaṅgasutta
Nāgapriya – Was the Buddha Omniscient?
Translation
Andrew Skilton and Kate Crosby – Giving Rise to the Bodhicitta: Translation from The Treatise on Discourses about Giving Rise to the Bodhicitta: The Bodhicittotpādasūtraśāstra of Vasubandhu
Book Review
Robert Ellis – How Buddhist Was Plato?
Dharmacārī Nāgapriya – Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars
Dharmacārī Ratnaguṇa – The Doctrine of Non-Duality in the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa
Dharmacārī Nāgapriya – Knowledge and Truth in Early Buddhism: An Examination of the Kālāma Sutta and Related Pali Canonical Texts
Mark McClelland (Dharmacārī Jñāṇavīra) – Homosexuality in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Dharmacārī Advayacitta – Minding Pinocchio: A Critical Analysis of Materialist Explanations of Consciousness
Dharmacārī Vāraghoṣa – Dancing At the Still Point: The Dharma and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
David Burton (Dharmacārī Asaṅga) – Is Madhyamaka Buddhism Really the Middle Way? Emptiness and the Problem of Nihilism
Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi – Perceptions of the FWBO in British Buddhism
Michael McGhee (Dharmacārī Vipassi) – Regarding Matthew Arnold
Urgyen Sangharakshita – Buddhism Without Beliefs?
Dharmachari Abhaya – Leaving Home: E.M. Forster and the Pursuit of Higher Values
Anthony Tribe (Dharmacārī Ānandajyoti) – Mañjuśrī: Origins, Role and Significance Parts 1 & 2
Dharmacārī Pūrṇa – Tārā: Her Origins and Development
Robert Morrison (Dharmacārin Sāgaramati) – Three Cheers for Taṇhā
Alan Sponberg (Dharmacārī Sāramati) – The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self
Michael McGhee (Dharmacārī Vipassi) – Freedom, Emotion and the Mind
Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi – Harold Bloom: The Embattled Canon and the Experiential Critic
Dharmacāri Kamalaśīla – Front Matter and Editorial
Dharmacārī Viśvapāni – Buddhism and the New Age
Anthony Tribe (Dharmacārī Ānandajyoti) – Mañjuśrī: Origins, Role and Significance, Part 3
Robert Morrison (Dharmacārin Sāgaramati) – God is Dead: What Next? A Buddhist Response to Nietzsche
Dharmacārī Kulananda – Conditionality and the Two Truths
Dharmacārī Subhūti – Going Forth and Citizenship
Alan Sponberg (Dharmacārī Sāramati) – Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion
The Order Journal was a precursor to the Western Buddhist Review as a scholarly journal for the Western Buddhist Order (as the Triratna Buddhist Order was known until 2010). Three issues were published, all edited by Dharmacārī Sthiramati (Andrew Skilton).