Relying on Bronze Age verses to critique religion's essence is like analyzing astronomy through astrology, or chemistry by alchemy. So...

I heard here the same sympathetic tones as her " Buddha " in the Penguin Lives series, which I reviewed 3/08 on Amazon US , or h...

"Even though, as it is widely believed, morality and religion are evolutionary emergents, evolution cannot tell us which one of them ...

Starting this audiobook, I heard Professor Smith's slow, hesitant delivery. He's been figuring out approaches to the big picture o...

Chonaic mé grian-éiclips faoi deireanach. Dhreap mé suas fána ar-ghéar ag trasna ó mo theach. Bhí luí na gréine nach beag. Chuir mé bileog...

"Why allow John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi to dominate your book club when Jefferson, Lincoln, and King are in the room?" To arrang...

Two months after a 17-year-old Tibetan nun was murdered by the Chinese police, this reporter for London's paper The Mail on Sunday fol...

This modest, unprepossessing diary chronicles the bicycle journey of a Southern California man, who wants to become a Buddhist monk. Befor...

In her mid-twenties, delaying a doctoral program in English, Jamie Zeppa leaves Toronto for Bhutan early in 1989. What she finds in part c...

This follows the stadiums full of cheers for the Dalai Lama's righteous but perhaps quixotic cause by many Western supporters with an...

Compared to Francoise Pommaret's Odyssey guide, Lonely Planet under the team of Bradley Mayhew, Lindsay Brown, and Anirban Mahapatra ...

This new edition features what has made this Odyssey guide so popular; it's the first written on this Himalayan kingdom (originally in...

Chuir mé an tae is blasta. Bheul, bím ag insint agaibh anois ar an laghad. Go dtí seo, sílím go mbeadh is fearr liom é. Cheannaigh mé bl...

Compared to its predecessor "The Global Soul," I found this 2004 essay collection stronger in part. Although some of the pieces ...

I liked Pico Iyer's debut collection of essays "Video Nights in Kathmandu" and his recent "The Open Road" on the D...