May 18, 201498: MULTI-MEDIA MONK#98: MULTI-MEDIA MONK. Things change, as the Buddha noticed. Vajrayana Buddhism—the Buddhism of Tibet and the Himalayan cultural...
Mar 31, 201497: TRACKING DU FU#97: TRACKING DU FU. My introduction to Du Fu (or Tu Fu, as his name was then transliterated) was in Robert Payne’s charming and still...
Mar 12, 201496: ONCE AND FUTURE#96: ONCE AND FUTURE. For sheer survival—a continued and lively grip on readers’ imaginations—no body of lore I know of in any Western...