Dear Dharma Friend and OBU Scholar,
This past four months, OBU has added no new courses or bibliographies to the site. The first third of 2022 has, however, seen:
a new Buddhism 101 course completely redesigned from the ground up featuring lectures by 11 different teachers and 10 newly added books.
four new external courses added to our course catalog on: the Tibetan Language, Human Biology, Shin Buddhism and Modern Poetry
and hundreds of new items added to the library, including some new favorites:
A classic, 1970s documentary about the monks at Ajahn Chah’s forest monastery in Thailand.
Mindfulness for the Whole Family – Sumi Loundon Kim
An American woman raised in a Buddhist commune reimagines what childhood could be in the post-modern West.
Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice – Karen Lucic
The images in this glossy art book serve well as inspiration, but the book is also a superb introduction to the history of the Mahāyāna.
How to Be Depressed – Matthew Sitman
A conversation about depression and human frailty and the political implications of our mortality.
The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology – Michael Wesch
An enthusiastically personal textbook about how to live in an interconnected, multicultural world.
To stay up-to-date on all the new additions to the library, don’t forget that you can subscribe to any of our content RSS feeds.
And if there are any topics you’d like to see more about in the future, or if you have any other questions or feedback, please email me any time.
Wishing you all the best in your Dharma journey,
Khemarato Bhikkhu
Chief Librarian @ The Open Buddhist University
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