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A Deeply Globalized Ancient World: On William Dalrymple’s <em>The Golden Road</em>

A Deeply Globalized Ancient World: On William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road

Alok A. Khorana Explores the Millenia-Long Cultural Connections Between India and Eurasia

By Alok A. Khorana | April 28, 2025

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

The Author of “Self-driving” in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 17, 2024

The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

From Douglas Ober's Cundill Prize-Nominated Dust on the Throne

By Douglas Ober | October 5, 2023

Missed Chances for Mindfulness: On Trying and Failing to Meditate

Missed Chances for Mindfulness: On Trying and Failing to Meditate

Zach Zimmerman Searches for Inner Peace in a World of Constant Distractions

By Zach Zimmerman | April 21, 2023

Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 17, 2023

Curtis White on Transcendence: How Art and Dharma Can Save Us in a Time of Collapse

Curtis White on Transcendence: How Art and Dharma Can Save Us in a Time of Collapse

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | January 20, 2023

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Avram Alpert Looks Closely at Franny and Zooey

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This Week on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | April 5, 2021

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

”The lioness’s roars of the ancient nuns have been muffled into sweet new-agey purring.”

By An Tran | February 3, 2021

On the Uses of Compassion

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Douglas Penick Considers Buddhist Traditions in the Mediation of Suffering

By Douglas Penick | January 21, 2021

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