Three New Review Articles

We're pleased to announce three new review articles for this year's volume of the Western Buddhist Review.

Agi Erdos has reviewed Emily Sigalow's American JewBu, an analysis of a key but under-theorised feature of the Western Buddhist world: the preponderance of Jewish people in Buddhist Groups.

Ālokadhāra takes a close look at the prolific Anālayo's latest addition to the mindfulness literature, Introducing Mindfulness.

And Vidyādevī walks us through the tracks and detours explored in Christor Ives' new book, Zen on the Trail.

Read these reviews in the current issue of the Western Buddhist Review.

Buddhist Modernism symposium: talks now available online

Back in January, Adhisthāna hosted a symposium on "Buddhist Modernism", exploring how Buddhism has been reshaped by its encounter with Western modernity.

The editors of the WBR each gave talks at the symposium on the subject of Buddhist Modernism, and Sanghadhara interviewed us for a podcast (available here) for The Buddhist Centre Online.

The talks from the symposium are now available to download from Free Buddhist Audio:

Exploring Buddhist Modernism: An Introduction

Dhivan

Romantic Buddhism

Silavādin

Sangharakshita as Buddhist Modernist: The Case of the Five Niyamas

Dhivan

Experience and Non-Experience, Revisited

Matt Drage

Western Buddhist Review launch event

Please join us via Zoom to help us relaunch the Western Buddhist Review!

The Western Buddhist Review was originally published in 1994, and it has appeared periodically since then. Now, under the editorship of Dhivan, Silavādin and Matt Drage, we are ready to launch volume 7, with this new website, which will provide an exciting scholarly and intellectual point of reference for the Triratna community.

The launch event will take place on Monday 28 September 7.30–8.30pm (UK time).

Sanghadhara be interviewing the editors, Dhivan will give a history of the WBR, there will be a reading from Bhante, and a small ritual to conclude. 

Zoom invite: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81153171352?pwd=QWY5a1pPbFVYdTFJYXpudDJYaERZZz09 Meeting ID: 811 5317 1352  Passcode: 194036 And whether or not you can get to the launch event, please have a look at the new website, and do sign up on the home page for email updates about new articles and reviews, and news about events and publications.