Recovering the testimony of medieval laity, often illiterate, from scattered records of the clergy, the law, and the landlord challenges any...

African-American, Tibetan Buddhist, on San Quentin's Death Row: Jarvis Masters faces the ultimate sentence for a crime he did not commit...

Hyped as "The Tipperary Witch Case," peddled as "The Cloneen 'Fairy' Mystery," shunned as "The Ballyvadlea ...

Opening night, my wife (we are permissive when it comes to film; my wife and many of the families we socialize with work in Hollywood so my ...

The seventh in the series opens with Jack Taylor finding out that Ban Garda Ridge, "my partner in hostility and uneasy alliance for yea...

This sequel to "The Jew in the Lotus" continues his quest for meaning, integrating Tibetan Buddhist aspirations towards silence an...

Few books about Zen near 400 pages; this balances Suzuki's unpublished reflections deftly with an in-depth, but briskly told and slyly a...

Interviews with 40 bloggers reveal many similarities. They advise you to keep pace, write well, and promote yourself. 90% of the discussions...

This is the first book I read entirely on Zen; spareness and simple presentation of profound complexity characterize such introductions. The...

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) remains famous today for reporting from Mecca, learning Asian, Arabic and African languages, spying as ...

Chaith muid dhá oíche ina Foinsí na Pailme. Iarr muid ag imeacht. Bhain sult as leathanta saoire beag againnsa. Ní maith liom an te, ar ndói...

"When the story is told in these pages began, had most Americans tried to locate Tibet on a map, they would have pockmarked half the gl...

Rereading this fifteen years after it was published, I found it poignant and thoughtful. In '94, I'd known about Judaism but not Bud...

1984-1991, between Indira & Rajiv Gandhi's murders, these stories tell of an Indian coastal city's impoverished, and how they lo...

Léigh mé aréir faoi Tenzin Palmo. Is díthreabhach í. D'fhan sí ina Hiomalaetha dhá blianta déag ina aonar. Tá scéal go iontach orm. Bhí ...