Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
June 9, 2011

Sumeru Publishes Charles Prebish’s An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer

I’m very pleased to tell you that our friend Charles Prebish – the recently-retired Charles Redd Chair in Religious Studies at Utah State University, and author of (among many other important works) Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America – has a new book out: An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer. It’s available right now at Barnes & Noble and at Amazon.com. The official press release is below (click to enlarge the pages).

Congrats, Chuck! Can’t wait to read it!

June 9, 2011

A Gift of Dharma for 6.9.11

Today’s quote is from the Venerable Narada Maha Thera (1898-1983), the immensely popular Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, author, and translator whom I previously wrote a short biography for in this post. This is it:

In the Dhamma there is nothing that is impractical or irrational. The Buddha practised what He taught; He taught what He practised. What He most emphasizes in His teaching is practice, for creeds alone cannot purify a person.