This is the fourth installment in my series of essays on two modern interpretations of the skandhas. Tilmann Vetter's The Khandha Passa...

A colleague recently cited the famous passage in which the Buddha seems to say you'll go mad if you try to figure out the workings o...

In Feb 2018 I was invited to contribute an article to a special issue of the journal Contemporary Buddhism . The issue would mainly con...

This "verse" occurs several times in the Nikāyas . It sums up a great deal in the space of just a handful of syllables. Like ot...

L AST WEEK WE SETTLED on a serviceable translation of the term papañca , but it's clear that in a Buddhist context simple translati...