Magazine

What I’m Reading Fall 2010

Wisdom: From Philosophy to NeuroscienceStephen S. HallAlfred A. Knopf, 2010333 pp., $27.95 cloth Half a century ago science, measuring our behavior with its languages of experimental cause and effect, might typically draw objections if not outcries that we are not automatons, will-less and without free choice. We are way beyond that now, and fascinatingly so […]

By Joseph McElroy

Fall 2010

Magazine Arts & Culture

Water Work

Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico Stanley Crawford University of New Mexico Press, 1993 243 pp., $18.95 paper Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen Vintage Books, 1988 416 pp., $16.95 paper In a time of water emergencies everywhere every week, of giant floods, continental drought, images virtually statistical of the Pacific Ocean circulating plastic […]

By Joseph McElroy

Summer 2010

Magazine Arts & Culture

What I’m Reading Spring 2010

River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across AmericaWilliam Least Heat-Moon Penguin, 2001 506 pp., $14 paper A River Sutra Gita Mehta Vintage, 1994 291 pp., $14.95 paper Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West James Lawrence Powell University of California Press, 2008 304 pp., $27.50 cloth A book, […]

By Joseph McElroy

Spring 2010

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Karmapas Work Together to Identify Reincarnated Lama

Tibetan New Year festivities cut back over coronavirus risk, the two claimants to the title of Karmapa will jointly identify the Shamarpa’s reincarnation, and a project showcasing Buddhist women shut down. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

Feb 15, 2020

Living the Lotus Sutra

Nichiren Shonin taught that the essence of the Lotus Sutra is found by developing faith through chanting what’s called the daimoku (or the odaimoku), the sutra’s sacred title. Myokei Caine-Barrett, the first woman and the first Westerner to hold the position of bishop in the Nichiren Order of North America, leads us through daimoku practice.

Feb 2020