Beacons of Dharma (Book Review) By Ross O'Brien Posted on March 12, 2021 #Book Reviews#Key Figures Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars of the Modern Age Edited by Christopher P. Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery D. Long | Review by Ross O’Brien Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars of the Modern Age (hereinafter, Beacons) is a collation of essays from some of the world’s foremost scholar-practitioners in the field of Indic traditions. The collective work is part of a larger s This is Member-Only Content To access, click here to activate a Digital Subscription with a 2-Week Free Trial (no credit card required). Learn more Read more like this #Key Figures #Traditions In the Service of Truth This personal essay will focus on various issues which arise when one is a scholar-practitioner in a spiritual tradition. By Jeffery Long #Book Reviews #Buddhism In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov In Love With the World (hereafter In Love), was written by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with the help of Tricycle magazine’s… By Ross O'Brien #Book Reviews #Interdisciplinary The Flip (Book Review) According to the pervasive materialist ideology, the flip is nothing but a hallucination, a flight of fantasy, a delusory event that can easily be explained away as some less-than-rigorous thinker’s mistaken perception. By Jacob Kyle #Book Reviews #Pedagogy Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics (Book Review) This 2019 book opens with a discussion of the Jaiminīyanyāyamālā (the Garland of Jaimini’s Reasons) of Mādhavācārya (1297-1388), a text that includes 1,536 verses that represent a distilled and comparatively concise summary of Mīmāṃsā reasoning. By Stephanie Corigliano