Music and Spirituality
Raymond Lam
5 July 2010
Humanity has invested awesome amounts of energy and emotion into music. Many will relate playing or listening to music as something akin to a spiritual
How to Deepen Your Spiritual Practice Through the Energy of Prayer
Raymond Lam
2 July 2010
A complete immersion in Buddhist discipleship requires awareness and mindfulness of the intensely personal dimensions of the Buddhist heritage. For disciples, the intimacy of the
Is Tradition Irrelevant?
Raymond Lam
1 April 2010
Last Thursday there was a debate held about the relevance of classical music in contemporary British society. The motion at the Cambridge Union was aptly put as,
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
Raymond Lam
1 November 2008
David L. McMahan, 2008, Oxford University Press David L. McMahan’s book The Making of Buddhist Modernism is a study of the new modes of discourse
What is Reality?
Rev. Upali
1 October 2008
What is Reality?: A Compendium of Scientific Discovery and the Buddha’s Discovery By Dhammadassi Bhikkhu and Kenneth B. GunatungePublished by the authors in 2010, ColomboPages:
“Buddhism Fatigue” and Buddhist Nuns in Filmmaking
Raymond Lam
1 August 2008
“Beautiful, soft, open – but not always interesting.” This is how California-based filmmaker Heather Kessinger describes current trends in American Buddhist filmmaking, which has unwittingly