Andrew Schelling

Translating the Speech of the Gods

A Sanskrit translator looks back.

By Andrew Schelling

Spring 2018

Locking Brows with Bhartrihari

New translations of ancient Indian verses

By Andrew Schelling

Spring 2017

Philip Whalen and the Wild Fox Slobber of Zen

Andrew Schelling on a new biography of Philip Whalen

By Andrew Schelling

Fall 2016

Whirling Petals, Windblown Leaves

“It was unthinkable that a poem should get no reply.” This sentence from The Tale of Genji, Japan’s profoundly melancholy Buddhist novel written around the year 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, marks the formalization of a particular approach to poetry. Poem responding to poem seems the basis of Murasaki’s worldview. Her book includes nearly eight hundred […]

By Andrew Schelling

Winter 2007

Magazine Arts & Culture

Gary Snyder’s Tracks

Andrew Schelling reviews Gary Snyder’s book, This Present Moment

By Andrew Schelling

Winter 2015

Magazine Arts & Culture

A Flash of Insight

A new translation of the first anthology of women’s spiritual poetry

By Andrew Schelling

Fall 2015

Magazine

Thus Have I Heard

Thus have I heard Once the eminent Buddhist scholar Edward Conzeknown for his translations of Perfect Wisdom, visited UC Santa Cruz to lecture He spent the entire period lambasting those who thought Buddhist insight might be achieved by eating organic food walking barefoot burning incense […]

By Andrew Schelling

Fall 2012

Magazine Arts & Culture

Shall We Offer Flowers?

Bitter buffaloberrydevil’s club, tangled dogtoothnarrowleaf arrowheadWhat are the lineages of life?ground water, radiant heat—listen, they form the underlying beatof the watershed,gifts with no motive the way of the ancientsskyrocket chicory bluestemfew-flowered shooting starIndian pipeall the paradise you need’s outside your doorthe medicine Buddha wears a lapis lazuli headdressfeathers & turquoise beadscan you give thanks with […]

By Andrew Schelling

Summer 2010