Your Help Needed: Name My New Art Book

  I’m very excited about a new book I’m working on, featuring my favorite 100 works of European art. I like the cover my publisher is proposing, and everything’s looking really good. There’s just one…

The Truth About Vajrayana Buddhism

While many consider Vajrayana Buddhism an entirely separate branch of Buddhism, it is better understood as an evolution of Mahayana Buddhism, which places great emphasis on the use of certain tantras—traditional spiritual techniques—in order to…

The Basics Of Zen Buddhism

Zen Buddhism is one of several sub-schools of Mahayana Buddhism, which is itself the larger of the two major interpretations of Buddhist philosophy. Historically, Zen developed as a blend of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism. Zen…

What Is Mahayana Buddhism?

Mahayana is one of the two major schools of Buddhism. The name comes from a Sanskrit term meaning “the Great Vehicle.” This style of Buddhism is most popular in Japan, Korean, China, Indonesia, and Tibet.…