“We are now in the twenty-first century; we should be twenty-first-century Buddhists.”—The Dalai Lama

The leading voices in Buddhism on today’s most important issues and ideas.

Twenty-First-Century Buddhists collects the very best of the round-table discussions recorded in the pages of Buddhadharma magazine over the past twenty years. These are lively and insightful conversations between a who’s who of contemporary Buddhist teachers and meditation experts from all traditions.

INCLUDED INSIDE:

Bhikkhu Bodhi on the challenges of translation

Jack Kornfield on a healthy ego

Reginald Ray on meditation

David R. Loy on politically engaged Buddhism

Sharon Salzberg on the student-teacher relationship

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Joseph Goldstein	Anne Carolyn Klein
Bhante Gunaratana	B. Alan Wallace
Robert Thurman	Taigen Dan Leighton
Shohaku Okumura	Ringu Tulku
John Tarrant	Andrew Olendzki
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche	and many more.

MELVIN MCLEOD is the editor-in-chief of two of America’s leading Buddhist magazines, Buddhadharma and Shambhala Sun, and is the editorial director of Mindful magazine. McLeod is the series editor for The Best Buddhist Writing series. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.