
Stuart Smithers
Stuart Smithers is assistant professor of South Asian Religions at the University of Puget Sound.

A new book champions the heroic spirit of business

Occupy Buddhism
Or Why the Dalai Lama is a Marxist

Rebel Redux
Where is Buddhism now?
How to Build a Caravan of Joy
The Mishap Lineage:Transforming Confusion into WisdomChögyam TrungpaEdited by Carolyn Rose Gimian,Shambhala Publications, 200905160 pp., $21.95 paper I almost met Chögyam Trungpa. When I arrived at the steps of the New York Historical Society, just off Central…

MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Losing Our Bodies, Losing Our Minds
When did we leave our bodies—and how do we come back?

‘The Lhasa Atlas’ by Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen
'The Lhasa Atlas' by Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen

Some of the Dharma
By Jack Kerouac
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Homelessness Into Home
On the Origins of Buddhist Monasticism

IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Stuart Smithers
The Buddha's last meal and the place of meat in the early Buddhist canon

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