J.B. Spins

Kirtan music—it’s not just for yoga anymore. Many new listeners still come through the doorway of Bhakti yoga, but the audience for the ...

The isolation of Zenru Chan Monastery on Yunju Mountain in Jiangsi province is good for the soul. It looks like the monk’s quiet way of l...

Swami Dyananda Saraswati is exactly the sort of spiritual teacher most seekers hope to study under. He is witty, charismatic, and decided...

Shakespeare famously wrote in As You Like It : “all the world’s a stage.” That includes the “Roof of the World” as well. In an act of sheer ...

Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher who embraced the 1960’s counterculture, but could not abide rock & roll. He dra...

It sounds like a good premise for a horror movie, but it is actually the basis for a very personal documentary. After dreaming of the death ...

A well fed corpse decays quickly. Ironically, when an anonymous suicide sets out to slowly starve himself into nothingness, his lean, dehydr...

The geography of Zanskar is decidedly harsh. While physically cold and arid, its position as a minority Buddhist enclave amid the tinder box...

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama recently opened at The Rubin Museum of Art in Clesea. Unfortunately, the Chinese will n...