21st Century Buddhists in Conversation

by McLeod, Melvin

• ISBN13: 9781614290865
• ISBN10: 1614290865
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-03-10
• Publisher: Wisdom Pubns

Summary

Leading voices of Buddhism discuss issues and ideas important to Buddhists in the twenty-first century.

Twenty-First-Century Buddhists collects the very best of the round-table discussions recorded in the pages of Buddhadharma magazine for over a decade. These conversations between a who’s who of contemporary Buddhist teachers, ranging over topics from student-teacher relationships to the place of prayer and the leadership roles of women in modern Buddhism, are always lively and insightful. With participants such as Bhante Gunaratana, Shohaku Okumura, Sharon Salzberg, John Tarrant, and Jack Kornfield, discussions equally represent old-school and newly emergent Buddhist traditions.
Contributers include:
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Jack Kornfield
Joseph Goldstein
David R. Loy
Robert Thurman
Yongyey Mingyur Rinpoche
Anne Carolyn Klein
B. Alan Wallace
Taigen Dan Leighton
Andrew Olendzki
Reginald Ray
Ringu Tulku
and many more.

Author Biography

Melvin McLeod is the editor-in-chief of two of America's leading Buddhist magazines, Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly and Shambhala Sun, and is the editorial director of Mindful magazine. McLeod has edited three books of teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh, Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place, and is the series editor for The Best Buddhist Writing series. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.