This personal essay will focus on various issues which arise when one is a scholar-practitioner in a spiritual tradition.
Beacons is divided into three parts: (1) Service, Compassion, and Humanitarianism, (2) Ecology and Environmental Activism, and (3) Peace, Knowledge, and Social Justice.
What is the role of the academy, and academia, in the study of religion and spirituality?
Nāgārjuna is by any account the most influential Mahāyāna philosopher.
Śrī Krishna Caitanya is an extraordinary person of the sixteenth century whose example of ecstatic embodiment is unique in the world. His contagious spiritual emotions and kirtan flooded the Indian subcontinent and demonstrated the power of bhakti to dispel the deluding power of maya and bring one to love as an eternal state of being.