Stuart Smithers

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

What’s in a Name?

SO MANY DIFFERENT NAMES exist for the Buddha that one might, in the course of perusing ancient texts or contemporary literature, easily assume that Gotama and Gautama and Shakyamuni and Siddhartha were the best of friends…

By Stuart Smithers

Spring 1993

Magazine | Reviews

The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Environment and Civilization

Edited by Max Oelschlaeger

By Stuart Smithers

Winter 1992

Magazine | Reviews

Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment Is a Religious Issue

Edited by Steven C. Rockefeller and John C. Elder

By Stuart Smithers

Fall 1992

Magazine | Reviews

Books in Brief Fall 1992

Burton Watson, John Strong, and the I Ching

By Stuart Smithers

Fall 1992

Buddha head, Ayuthaya, Thaland. Courtesy of Bobby Neel Adams; inner freedom buddhism

IdeasMagazine | Special Section

Freedom’s Just Another Word

What truly is liberation? According to Smithers, it's not just a matter of outer freedoms.

By Stuart Smithers

Fall 1992

Magazine | Reviews

Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus

Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus By Georg Feuerstein. Paragon House: New York, 1991. 259 pp. $24.95 (hardcover). Everyone is entitled to receive at least two pearls…

By Stuart Smithers

Summer 1992

Magazine | Reviews

Books in Brief

History of Indian Buddhism: from the Origins to the Saka Era By Etienne Lamotte. Translated by Sara Webb-Boin, under the supervision of Jean Dantinne. Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain: Louvain, 1991. 870 pp. $95.00 (paperback).…

By Stuart Smithers

Summer 1992

IdeasMagazine | On Translation

When the Buddha Bowed Out

“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not a very encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got…

By Stuart Smithers

Spring 1992

MeditationMagazine | In Transition

Minding the Storehouse

Although most of us are intimately identified with the contents and functions of our minds, we never make the attempt to actually see what goes on there. If we did, we might see what the Buddha saw…

By Stuart Smithers

Fall 1991

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Stuart Smithers

What’s in a Name?

The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Environment and Civilization

Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment Is a Religious Issue

Books in Brief Fall 1992

Freedom’s Just Another Word

Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus

Books in Brief

When the Buddha Bowed Out

Minding the Storehouse

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