Egon Schiele, "Girl with Black Hair" ( Mädchen mit schwarzem Haar, 1912 ). Certainly a work that grabs one's attention, or a...

Retracing his youthful trek, this veteran travel writer charts conversations and shares sights. It starts off powerfully in Xian, at the s...

A Chinese woman writing about the invasion of Tibet: this intrigued me. As my sympathies lie not with the PRC, however, I feared sentiment...

Chogyam Trungpa's wife's biography inevitably's intimate and reticent. It tells nearly all, yet I felt it held back. The sheer ...

This visually stunned me. It opens with panoramic vistas and fills pages with imagery. Its text packs lots of learning. While a heavy book i...

Bluntly, boldly, this urges Buddhists to adapt its “radical teachings on forgiveness, compassion, and kin...

May break my bones? This blog's reviewed earnest accounts by Western Buddhists, Irish republicans and their discontents, scholarly pun...

Dúirt mé faoi stair phoblactach agus mná go hairithe dó faoi deireanach. Tá agallamh ag craoladh le Raidi...

Six decades spans the coming of Buddhism as a novelty to the island into its hesitant acceptance, during the countercultural efflorescence,...

Famed London barrister and Buddhist popularizer, his 1978 autobiography reads as quaintly as his Edwardian verse that he preferred and imita...