New Releases from Blog Interviewees Yifa and Ravenna Michalsen
This past spring, I did a video interview the Ven. Dr. Yifa, who is a Taiwanese nun of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, Yale-educated professor, and popular author (among other things). In the interview, we talked exclusively about the book she was just finishing at the time, which was then to be called Junk and set for a summertime release. (Please do take a look at the interview if you have not already: Ven. Dr. Yifa’s enthusiasm for the topic is very apparent in the video, and I think it makes for terrific viewing.) In the interim, the book title has changed to Authenticity: Clearing the Junk: A Buddhist Perspective, and it has just been made available for order from both publisher Lantern Books and Amazon.com. To find out more about the book, visit Lantern’s page for the title here. (You can also read sample content there, including the introduction and first chapter.)
Very recently, I presented an interview with my friend Ravenna Michalsen, the Shambhala Buddhist meditation instructor and acclaimed singer-songwriter. In that interview, Ravenna and I talked about her new album Dharmasong, a record comprised of eight tracks of devotional songs–six of them penned by her, the other two interpretations of Milarepa songs. Dharmasong was released on Thursday and can be order from either Ravenna’s official site or her Myspace page. Be sure to pick one up!
