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Twenty-First-Century Buddhists in Conversation
Edited by Melvin McLeod
Published by Wisdom Publications
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Leading voices of Buddhism discuss issues and ideas important to Buddhists in the twenty-first century.
Twenty-First-Century Buddhists collects the very best of the round-table discussions recorded in the pages of Buddhadharma magazine over the past twenty years. These conversations between a who’s who of contemporary Buddhist teachers, ranging over topics from student-teacher relationships to the place of prayer and the leadership roles of women in modern Buddhism, are always lively and insightful. With participants such as Bhante Gunaratana, Shohaku Okumura, Sharon Salzberg, John Tarrant, and Jack Kornfield, discussions equally represent old-school and newly emergent Buddhist traditions.
Contributers include:
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Jack Kornfield
Joseph Goldstein
David R. Loy
Robert Thurman
Yongyey Mingyur Rinpoche
Anne Carolyn Klein
B. Alan Wallace
Taigen Dan Leighton
Andrew Olendzki
Reginald Ray
Ringu Tulku
and many more.
Twenty-First-Century Buddhists collects the very best of the round-table discussions recorded in the pages of Buddhadharma magazine over the past twenty years. These conversations between a who’s who of contemporary Buddhist teachers, ranging over topics from student-teacher relationships to the place of prayer and the leadership roles of women in modern Buddhism, are always lively and insightful. With participants such as Bhante Gunaratana, Shohaku Okumura, Sharon Salzberg, John Tarrant, and Jack Kornfield, discussions equally represent old-school and newly emergent Buddhist traditions.
Contributers include:
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Jack Kornfield
Joseph Goldstein
David R. Loy
Robert Thurman
Yongyey Mingyur Rinpoche
Anne Carolyn Klein
B. Alan Wallace
Taigen Dan Leighton
Andrew Olendzki
Reginald Ray
Ringu Tulku
and many more.
Product Details
- Publisher: Wisdom Publications (March 10, 2015)
- Length: 328 pages
- ISBN13: 9781614291060
Raves and Reviews
“An exceedingly rich and useful resource for broadening, deepening, and further contextualizing one’s practice and understanding.”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living
“What wonderful conversations to be privy to! Here we observe respected longtime practitioners engage their wisdom with meaningful areas of inquiry. They offer examples of the clarity and compassion each of us must employ to open to and embody the teachings and the practices of contemporary, living Dharma.”
– Kathleen Dowling Singh, author of The Grace in Aging
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