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Van Duc Temple, Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City - Places to Visit in Vietnam 27 Mar 2013 | 03:47 am
If you are planning a holiday to Vietnam then you should definitely put aside a morning or afternoon while you are in Ho Chi Minh City in order to visit Thu Duc. Thu Duc is a fascinating place. It is ...
Monday Blogcrawl - Buddhism 7 Jan 2013 | 12:07 pm
Some Buddhist stuff from around the www this past week: Stories of the Buddha in art Some random Buddhist links Boundless gives us a beautifully simple explanation of Thai Buddhist art Thich Nhat ...
5 Interesting Books by Thich Nhat Hanh 19 Dec 2012 | 11:00 am
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most fascinating and compelling people alive - a real living spiritual treasure. I first came upon his work when I was a very young man, and I was delighted by the simpli...
Top 5 Day-Glo Lotuses in Vietnam 19 Dec 2012 | 09:10 am
I have a thing for the popular Buddhist art of Vietnam. I am a fan of the school of maximilism that informs most of the temple decoration that you see in Vietnam. Indeed, the working title for my book...
Christian-Zen, Zen-Christian 19 Dec 2012 | 08:29 am
Pic from Randy Dellosa Just briefly, I wanted to alert you to this fascinating podcast from Unity FM's World Spirituality podcast on Christian-Zen practice. Zen Buddhism is the form that Vietnamese ...
Van Mieu - The Temple of Literature - Hanoi 10 Dec 2012 | 02:32 am
My favourite place in all of Hanoi is Van Mieu, the medieval Confucian University. Yes, I know it is something of a tourist hell-hole these days (in fact, I write about it in Destination Saigon), but...
The Next Big Thing - Destination Cambodia 6 Dec 2012 | 10:28 am
My pal P.M. Newton, the acclaimed Australian crime novelist, has tagged me with the Next Big Thing Meme. In the true spirit of procrastination, I have embraced the opportunity. So here goes: 1) What ...
Minh Dang Quang 4 Dec 2012 | 12:08 pm
One of the most mysterious and fascinating figures in Vietnamese Buddhist history is the Patriarch Minh Dang Quang. Though he was an enormously influential character whose legacy still thrives today ...
Tan Dinh Church, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City 17 Nov 2012 | 09:39 am
News about Vietnam rarely includes mention of the numerous sleepy, crumbling French Colonial churches that are to be found in every city and large town. Tourists mostly just drive by them, and to the ...
Cong Binh, the lost fighters of Vietnam 6 Nov 2012 | 10:40 am
At a book launch recently I met a fascinating woman who was the descendant of Vietnamese workers who had been sent to France as forced labourers to establish a rice farming industry. Until then I had ...
