The following are excerpts from Meeting the Buddha: On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India, a selection of writings by pilgrims from ancient times to the present, to be published in November by Tricycle Books (an imprint of…

Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life Tulku Thondup Edited by Harold Talbott Shambhala Publications: Boston (1995). 288 pp., $16.00 (paper). Enlightened Journey offers the reader inspiration and discouragement in equal measure. Tulku Thondup’s description of the…

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian; the Dalai Lama, the embodiment of compassion, eats meat by his doctors’ orders. Clearly, there’s more to mind than what is put into the mouth: yet, as long as food remains a…