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Maureen Blatt should be just a nice guy. We had already taken from the tasty pills of his hilarious blog (do not miss, here ) and confirms it's approach to writing in her first book. The argument, camouflaged behind the playful title, is the host of music lovers, ie the population that under normal garments, hides and deflected a fierce compulsion to purchase, collection and / or listening to music, preferably on vinyl and on systems that cost five salaries. Be careful, warns us Blatt, they are among us under the guise of the most honest and professional working fathers, and does so from its privileged observation tower a seller of a well-known shop in Turin. A cross between a crib and a picture of Bosch, the bestiary of music lovers has fixed his characters accept their existence with the dominant thought of the crooked music collection. And it is quite uncertain whether, as in Bosch, they are monsters or, indeed, harmless shepherds of Bethlehem and laundresses.

The book begins well, full of gags crackling, described with loving sarcasm Blatt, protagonists who see human figures, let's face it, we might as well be us. Out of the process of identification, however, the book begins to flood the reading gets tired and squares become progressively up to become repetitive indistinti. Ed è un peccato, perchè alcuni spunti sono veramente notevoli. 

Da eterno acquirente di dischi e da overquarantenne sabaudo imputo l'impasse a due fattori: il primo, e meno grave, è che nella focalizzazione di Blatto l'empatia che prova per i nevrotici clienti sia un pochettino spuria, e si sente netta la distanza tra il dotto entomologo e l'insettino sotto la lente d'ingrandimento. L'altro fattore, che crediamo sia la malattia esiziale del libro, è che va a cadere oltre la raccolta di aneddoti - si fosse fermato lì  sarebbe stato garbatissimo, al limite un po' ripetitivo - per, interpretiamo noi e magari sbagliamo, una recondita pretesa di essere un affresco della torinesità diverted. This is unfortunately a serious syndrome that afflicts most of the subalpine landscape of the scribes. Orphans of the award-winning firm Fruttero & Lucentini, all Culicchi and LITTIZZETTO and Gambarotta and ormezzani - see insert provincialissimo Torinosette - end up frutterolucentinare ad libitum, resulting in have a plethora of squared chestnut, coy of life Minimal Turin. But, alas, the American specialist was quite another thing.

ps: that surfs surfs you find only praise for the book, which multiply the readings and presentations. As the ship of fools (and how Barcarolo Lando Fiorini, we are a blog of music, for God's sake!) The albumbianco prosegue controcorrente. Olè!

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The LT's reviews - "Aesthetics and Modernism in China ', (ed.) G. Marchianò

AA.VV. " Estetica e Modernismo in Cina " (a cura di Grazia marchianò), Rubbettino Editore Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 1933
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AA.VV., " Scritti italiani su NikolajRerich. Con inediti di Elena Ivanovna Rerich " (a cura di Grazia Marchianò), Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli (CZ)1993

Da una feconda collaborazione con la casa editrice Rubbettino e la professoressa Marchianò , insegnante universitaria di Estetica, nasce la prima collana italiana dedicata alle estetiche di Oriente e Occidente (" Saggi brevi di estetica comparata ").
I soggetti delle prime due uscite, both of great interest, could not be further apart, and promises, written by the same Marchianò , "on the direction of thought" we await with some curiosity. The term of

modernism means the movement of China's "new wave", suppressed in 1989 filodemocratrici together with the movements.
In the early eighties , by withdrawing from the government interdiction of aesthetic studies were initiated massive cultural exchanges with the 'West ; not only Hegel, but also Schopenhauer, Nietzsche , Freud, until recently considered "bourgeois counter-revolutionaries", they had found a place in the training of young Chinese intellectuals. As one critic naturalized Australian, Jose Nicolas in 1988 in Beijing "it seemed that every two people, one was an artist, and everyone else who merchant, who a Business for the merchant, who poet. be an artistic statement and the group was an affirmation of freedom (from the Introduction of G. Marchianò , p.. 6).

The "Italian Writings on Rerich " of Bazzarelli , Lopez, Spendel, Zolla make known an original thinker and a Russian artist, who is bitten between painting, philosophy and the esoteric in some ways recalling Gurdjieff, quite rightly known as Grace Marchianò in his post-faction (p. 129). How Gurdjieff was a "lieutenant" in Ouspenskji so Rerich ( 1874-1947) found his "double" in his wife Elena Ivanovna who assist him, especially in research on the Agni Yoga ( see the collection of reflections " World fire"), in which the reference to the Vedic rituals acts as a support for a genuine way to the Russian ' East. The climate culture was the same as that produced Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy. The spiritual journey of
Rerich can also be summarized by the story of his relations, in no particular order include those with Vivekananda, Tagore with with Krishnamurti and, of particular interest to our magazine, with the buddhologo Sherbatskij.

In the main body of the book, some color plates are good examples of painting Rerich that Elémire Zolla down sharply: "... ascetic, adamantine, but at the same time hallucinatory intensity "(p.21).

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "old rose"

Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue " , Year XIII, No 50, April-June 1994

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The LT's reviews - "Do not create more suffering," by A. Thanavaro

Achaan Thanavaro, "Do not create more suffering " Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1995

Abbot of the first Theravada monastery Italian, Vihara Santacittarama of Sezze ( LT ) Achaan Thanavaro an original expression of tradition mts of the forest, whose most well-known in the West, Achaan Sumedho , was indeed a master of Thanavaro .
The forty-year history of this Italian is simple and extraordinary at the same time. Driven, as often happens when you are searching for a way to obscure spiritual quest, the impact of anxiety on a young introverted temperament, he makes early meetings that you would be tempted to define signs of positive karma, one with critical Achaan Sumedho , who becomes his mentor, who in 1979 , along with other monks, including Saddhatissa Mahathera is a witness of his ordination in Monaco in London.
When, after various experiences in different parts of the world, Thanavaro part Italy, is to deal with the vihara of Sezze , founded in 1990 Fondaziuone with the support of Maitreya, and where tradition of the masters of the forest is an adaptation in the Italian reality.

The present book is structured in three parts. The first is a short interview by Gian Paolo Fiorentini , which we know as an employee of our magazine and excellent translator, the second part, about sixty pages, gives speeches on various topics of Buddhist practice, in the third part Finally, we review the ten paramita , the virtues of the bodhisattva : generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, application, patience, honesty, determination, universal love, equanimity, balance.

Louis Turinese



In pictures: "Pipinara"

Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XIII, No 50, April-June 1994

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The LT's reviews - "The Buddha", GS Fazion

Gianpietro are factions, "The Buddha , Cittadella Editrice, Assisi (PG) 1993

The current spread of speeches - including film - about Buddhism and its founder, vitality returns to a genre, the biography, which seemed watered down by a plethora of books honest but repetitive.
is reprinting the classic example " Buddha" by Oldenberg, and among the contemporary works deserves a prominent place this work Fazion, Zen practitioner and author, again for the Cittadella types of a "Zen Buddhism Journey" (1990 ).

The originality of the book is revealed from the beginning, where no way to "evental" to make history in favor of a treatment for issues "that debuted in" media res " with the entry of Buddhism in China ( eighth century); here Fazion leans on" Memoirs of countries the West at the time of the great Tang "of Xuangzang , which tells of a sort of pilgrimage to the places crucial historical Buddha.

Several times Fazion indulges a parallelism between the dispossession of Francis of Assisi and that of Siddhartha . But Francis lands Absolute personnel, as well as suggests its Christian context; while the Buddha sinks in a silence which is metaphysical rather close, in a Western context, the so-called apophatic mysticism of Meister Eckhart , or even, in some way, the position of the Blessed Angela of Foligno , properly cited at pp. 38-39.

Significant interest is also the "woman question" that the book looks at pages 135-145 ("Stories of women "), there is shown that the attitude of the Buddha order against women, and it seems to us tinged with misogyny, it should be contextualized: in the fifth century BC . in India, the possibility that women spend life to the spiritual quest was already a revolution. Last
value of this book, and not secondary: it is well written, educated and fluent in Italian.

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Tombstone Person"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and the dialogue ", Year XIII, No 50, April-June 1994

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reviews of LT-"Gold, frankincense and myrrh, D. Zangari

Daniel Zangari, " Gold, frankincense and myrrh " lithograph "AZ", Reggio Calabria 1994

A little book well Indeed, inspired by tradition and written in a language accessible to all. The summary for the work of Zangari, Reggio Calabria and for this reason inclined to evaluate three important figures in the philosophy of southern ' Italy: Pitagora , Federico II and Tommaso Campanella .

Having celebrated last year, with several cultural events, the eighth centenary of the birth of Frederick II appears very early recognition that in this enlightened ruler pays Zangari, which emphasizes the ì'iniziazione Sufism in addition to the '.. love for Sicily, for poetry and the arts, culture and science " (p. 30).

Louis Turinese


In pictures: " Natural webcam "


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XIV, No. 55, July-September 1995

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The LT's reviews - "The verses of Samkhya" The reviews of Ishvarakrishna

Ishvarakrishna, "The verses of Samkhya ", published by Vidya Ashram, Rome 1994

Ishvarakrishna Although the encoder is rather of a tradition already present, Samkyakarika are the text of the school samky oldest known. Written around the
IV-V century , summarizes the propositions of one of the most prolific darshana .

In the stories of the Indian philosophy samky is usually associated with Yoga. In fact, the Yoga is the "pragmatic arm" of samky , the latter in turn forms the epistemological side. The samky is an atheist, I Yoga is a theist. Both are two-tier system, focusing on the dialectic between the soul (purusha ) ee phenomenal world ( prakriti) and discrimination (Viveka ) between the two companies, which alone is the sword that cuts through the illusion and, therefore, paves the way to liberation.

In a sense, an evolution of samky is realized in the Buddhism of Nagarjuna , as stated in the Introduction Raniero Gnoli . "We replace the relative reality ... the prakriti, consciousness ... and the filing of the ineffable loneliness purusha absolute reality, is the equivalence is perfect" (p. 23).

The comment to this work, which is represented by seventy-two aphorisms is that the different Guadapada traditions are between the sixth and eighth centuries. edition that sends Vidya Ashram library is pretty much the same as we knew it in the Library Boringhieri ( 1978) and was based on the translation of 1960, made by a young and already very sharp Corrado Think original Sanskrit . A think you should also specify the Preface, while Ranieno Gnoli signed as mentioned above, the learned Introduction. Hogarth Press edition appeared in the bottom of the volume, a useful "Historical note on the Indian doctrines" signed by Vincenzo Talamo, who is not here. It is probably superfluous been recognized in a program editorial to Vidya Ashram, which is itself one long "note to the Indian doctrines."

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Jaws"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XIV, No 55, July-September 1995

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LT - "1 Course in Buddhist Studies, Center for Studies of Maitreya

Research Center Maitreya, " 1 Course in Buddhist Studies", published by Paramita, Rome 1995

In December of 1993 was established to Venice Study Centre Maitreya, the true "supporter" of the Maitreya Foundation, has set itself the goal of deepening Buddhism especially as regards its relations with Western culture, Western culture has meaning for the Christian spiritual tradition both modern scientific thought. Between February
el ' April of 1994 was held in Venice the first course of Buddhist studies, of which this volume is a timely guide.
In three meetings a day each have reviewed the major Buddhist traditions: Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana . The actions are due to scholars and spiritual teachers, resulting heterogeneity fertile, can provide complementary information.
the spiritual teachers also were asked to open each day with a speech on the formation of Monaco in their tradition. They have come and gone so Thanavaro , Taino, and Jampa Gyatso, who was also entrusted with a practice session in his own tradition.
Excellent Italian bibliography of over three hundred titles, edited by Paolo Vicentini .


Louis Turinese


In Photo: "Solar System"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XIV, No 55, July-September 1995

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The LT's reviews -" on the direction of thought "of Grace Marchianò

Grace Mark, " guidelines of thought," Rubbettino Publisher, Soveria Mannelli (CZ) 1994

On PARAM n.50 had reviewed the first two volumes of the series "Essays short comparative aesthetics" that the publisher Rubbettino inaugurated under the direction of Professor Marchianò . He added that wait with curiosity announced "guidelines of thought, work the same Marchianò .
The wait has now been repaid to expectations. The double volume is devoted to what, with Jungian language, might be called the archetype of the vacuum, which is closely connected to the monistic idea of \u200b\u200bnature. The late Romanian thinker
Culianu , who tragically died a few years ago, was highlighted as one of the most persistent "mental programs" include both the dualism, especially strong in the history of Western thought.
Its results are the most recognizable pairs of concepts in which the second term is always written down: good / evil, anima/corpo, realtà ultraterrena/mondo...
L'apparire del nichilismo sulla scena filosofica, negli ultimi due secoli, ha cominciato a sgretolare l'unilateralità del dualismo.
Ma prima, pensatori come Eraclito ed Empedocle , e per certi versi Platone, sottolineando il divenire e l'interdipendenza di ogni cosa, costituiscono un filone minoritario ma pur sempre presente di ciò che qui viene efficacemente definito " oriente del pensiero" , e che come è ovvio non si riferisce a coordinate geografiche, sebbene nel pensiero orientale abbia ricevuto più cospicue conferme.
"Il buddhismo mahayana, in particolare la scuola che si ispira a Nagarjuna says that the empirical reality is meaningless, impermanent and jointly caused (pag.72).

The core of the second volume, not surprisingly, revolves around the "Lotus Sutra " composed at the beginning of the Christian era in India , here translated into Far East, and constitutes an important contribution to "orient of thought."
Anthropologists and scientists as a contemporary Western Bateson and Prigogine witness a turning point toward a systematic thinking that is itself an "East of thought." Space-time of contemporary physics is made a move to a blissful time.

The book is an analysis-philosophical language of Eastern thought, particularly Japanese comparatively to Western thought. Within the latter, knowledge is possible distance the object, in Eastern thought, knowledge is always an act of identification. " When we look at a flower, the flower becomes a living part of ourselves " (p. 38, quoted by Nishida ). In the triple

appendix to the book, a section is devoted to the aesthetics of 'iki , a sort of phenomenon of consciousness in which there is precisely the interface between inside and outside, between observer and object observation (the subject, the publishing house Adelphi recently dedicated a translation of a seminal text of Kuki Shuzo : The book IRI).
" Taoist and Buddhist Meditation has given unparalleled contributions to the guidelines of aesthetic thought. All the traditional arts in China , Korea, Japan dell'insostanzialità have followed the principle of existence, in transfusing a system of perception and cognition that run through the subtle forms and processes of nature, making a glimpse of the face and the sounds originating "(p. 92).

interest is the annotated bibliography, which winds around six themes running through the work: Buddhism, comparative literature, aesthetics of East and West, Japan, Lotus, Nature.

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Japan is far away"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, notebooks and the practice of Buddhism for dialogue ", Year XIV, No 55, July-September 1995

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The LT's reviews - "The Power of Yoga", by J. Evola

Julius Evola, "The Yoga of Power ", Edizioni Mediterranee, Rome 1994

Tantrism, nell'accezione Vajrayana Buddhist and even more as life-giving connection to the trunk of Hinduism, is configured at the beginning of the Christian era, as a spiritual path pursued through the body. As such, it is totally modern and in a sense the way of achieving more consistent era in which we live, a Kaly Yuga .
Turning poison into medicine, this is the main precept of tantric achieved riding passions apparently more "amoral" ripped the sign of attachment to see the inherent spirituality.
placing the focus of research, the dialectic between masculine principle (Shiva ) and the feminine (Shakti ) Tantrism is a figure of sexual polarity between the union and Shiva Shakti , shaded so what in Jungian psychology is called " coniunctio oppositorum . According

Evola, the main features of Tantrism are three: the metaphysics of shakti, the enhancement of sadhana (the practice, making use of hatha yoga , especially the pranayama, and in some schools, ritual sexual union), the doctrine of the mantra which is dedicated to the entire eighth chapter of the book. This is seen by Shaktism Evola as the expression of a common residue from ancient civilizations, identifiable in the cult of Magna Mater .
Also interesting is the tenth chapter, devoted to chakras, energy centers of occult physiology.
in the early stages of this work Evola avowedly want to keep an equal distance from both the two-dimensional displays pale specialist university and academic Orientalism, and the vagaries of the "occult" and so-called "spiritualists" of our times " (p. 27).
Intent commendable and respected in many ways, in a book well written and in which less than usual avvvertono evoliane the unpleasantness, or those that seem to us that: some opinionated nietzschianesimo, ostentatious aristocracy of the spirit as opposed to "democracy" of the modern world, the signs of racism that are used to deny evoliani with captious arguments, but that emerges as soon as the author of "distracted." Like when we read that the yogi pursues "the absence of any sign of the face revealing a thought or feeling, obtained with a complete control of the facial muscles to a typically impassive Aryan ( sic!) statue from " (p. 113).
no coincidence that the title of the first draft of the work, then largely rebuilt, should be "The Man as Power."
is therefore very timely to read the review that Marguerite Yourcenar wrote in 1972 for "Le Monde " and is shown in the bottom of the volume. Review all things positive, but which raises a sharp distinction between the mystic and magician, Evola recognizing the propensity towards the second reality, rather than to the first.

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "donkey ears"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, notebooks and the practice of Buddhism for dialogue ", Year XIV, No 55, July-September 1995

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The LT's reviews - "Mahatma Gandhi: ideals and practice of an educator, D. A. Dolcini et The

D. Dolcini, E. Fasana, C. Coinage, " Mahatma Gandhi: ideals and practice of an educator " Propaganda Institution Libraries, Milan 1994

the late eighties , some Italian universities conducted a research on Mahatma Gandhi , figure highly relevant even wanting to look only in terms of pedagogy. The result is a conference which we present acts.
The editors are also authors of important interventions. A Donatella Dolcini, Hindi language teacher , we "Gandhi in the feminine: process of education"; Fasana Henry, Professor of History and institutions of Asia, has been produced on "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi educator of national unity"; Catherine Issuance , finally, from his responsibilities as professor of Indian religions and philosophy, developed the theme "Continuity of teaching Gandhi: The Mahatma and Vinoba Bhave .

Wherever you want to watch, the Mahatma (epithet due to the poet Tagore ) remains above all a great figure of karma yogi, that is dedicated to the yoga of action. For this reason it seems central in the twenty responses that make up the volume, the intervention of Donald Zazzi , "Values \u200b\u200beducation in reading the Bhagavad Gita Gandhi" (p. . 117-126). In Gita, who stayed with the Gospels a consistent readings in the life of Gandhi , this is indeed the theme of the just released action by expectations about the results.

In a sense, this line is the valuable assistance of Catherine Issuance , mentioned above: Vinayak Bhave ( 1895-1953), renamed from Gandhi Vinoba , one of its most valuable employees and then successors, did a terrific karma yoga instrument of social action. "Karma is concrete action, carried out as swadharma (duty). Vikarma indicates he has done with purity of mind and heart. The union of inner and outer become one thing ( Vinoba , quoted by C. Issuance page. 247).


Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Fresh Dew"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and for dialogue ", Year XIV, No 55, July-September 1995

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LT's reviews - "The Wheel of Life", by J. Blofeld

John Blofeld, " The Wheel of Life", published by "The Meeting Point", Vicenza 1994

Commenting on a book, we can not but consider it in its context also temporal. In the '50s not yet know the mass distribution of Eastern thought that we have today. It was the era in which the accounts of travels, bathed in an aura of exoticism, held the place now occupied by the reflection on liberation and suggestions on the practice. Think of all 'Autobiography of a Yogi that Yogananda had already written before it had spread internationally since the '50s .
Blofeld's book presented here is significantly subtitled " Autobiography of a Western Buddhist ", and its first edition was in fact the 1959.
The author, a Buddhist tantric English, spent much time in Asia, especially China . Important contribution was his meeting with Lama Govinda . Many of his books have been translated into Italian, think of The doctrine of Zen Huang Po, a Zen Teaching of Hui You to Taoism, all published by Ubaldini, or even Art Chinese Tea , published by Mediterranee, or finally to the Secret and the Sublime, for the types of Mondadori.

The wheel of life should be read with great pleasure and is an easy book, in its best sense, while not presenting quell'inflazione supernatural that presented instead auttobiografia, before cited, of Paramahansa Yogananda . Appear blade, Taoist masters, Zen monks, even the meeting, contained in the second edition of the book with the Dalai Lama , which occurred in 1969 . All
But in a climate measured, not fabulous, we would say strongly Buddhist. In the Introduction, the author makes clear in this respect: "... I have omitted some amazing experience, fear of being considered a naive or a fool. So it may be that some readers find the book lacks an adequate number of drug events ... The real wonders are the wonders of the human spirit and of these, the book contains several "(p. 11).
example of these intentions is the beautiful passage devoted to visiting the garden Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha . Blofeld was first saddened because of the state prevailing in the place, a barren wasteland interrupted by historical commemorative column of Ashoka . Then he closes his eyes and plunges into a discursive meditation to evoke the magic that certainly had release in that place His best season.
It appears to the mind of the pilgrim, the scene of the birth of the Blessed One, in a kind of active imagination. "What I saw was neither a dream or a vision. I just closed my eyes and I had a picture of the events that caused deliberatamete had made Lumbini a place to remember forever " (p. 286.


Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Stars lost '


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XIV, No. 55, July-September 1995

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The LT's reviews - "Scenarios metaphysical alienation of blue" by V. The maximum

Valerius Maximus," Scenarios metaphysical alienation of blue ", Athanor Associazione Culturale, Pesaro 1994

" It is man who trades / a torpor for peace. "
In collecting and willingly presenting, content often surpasses the form: rhythm, alliteration, image, poetry is all that is fragile in this collection. And yet a value emanates from the pages of Valeriano maximum, and the value of a content that is expressed in a kind of poetic prose.
It is no coincidence, moreover, that among the poems are hide a couple of prose full of reflections. "closed ... these" scenarios "metaphysical, and left behind our archetypes, we'll still be ready to sink back into life" (from the afterword, p. 79).


Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Contrasts"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and the dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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LT's reviews - "The crazy wisdom", by M. Valli, and "sitting meditation: Try!" By Ruth D.St.

Marco Valli, "The wisdom of crowds . Meditation and Daily Life "Promolibri, Torino 1995 and

Diana St. Ruth," Meditation sitting : try " Promolibri, Torino 1995

In a book market in which, for obvious economic reasons, the pocket is earned a place in the sun, it is quite natural to see appear in "pocket for meditation." This series direct from Promolibri Gianpaolo Fiorentini called "Spirituality experimental" and, as they say, his name says it all.
The first two booklets published, presented here, respectively introduce the tradition of Tibetan Dzog-chen and practice in the field of ecumenical Buddhist of vipassana. More
philosophical text Valleys, which calls into question, to give strength to his speech, three key figures in the western inner search: Odysseus, Socrates especially Oedipus, whose route spirirtuale lingers, comparing it to ten images of the "hunt" bull of the Zen tradition.

What Diana Ruth is instead a delightful booklet practical training to meditazine, accompanied by simple and funny little drawings that make me want to sit down and experiment. Spirituality experimental fact.

Louis Turinese


In pictures: "Hobbit among the leaves"


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, n . 58, April-June 1996

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The LT's reviews - "Witness for Europe", AA.VV. and "The River from the mouth to the source", by P. Scanziani

AA.VV., "Witness of Europe." Introduction to the work of Piero Scanziani "Swiss Edition, Chiasso (Switzerland) 1991
and
Piero Scanziani," River from the mouth to the source "Swiss Editions, Morbio (Switzerland) 1996

Figure of Piero Scanziani is atypical in the literary scene Italian. Born in 1908 in Canton Ticino , Scanziani has always written in Italian, is distinguished by a highly heterogeneous production: novels, drama ( Alessandro of 1968), various essays, some of argument Wisdom - think of Aurobindo (1973) and especially Entronauta ( 1969) - an autobiography, just River from the mouth to the source where the third person, is narrated his adventure and human spiritual.

Witness of Europe is a compilation of contributions by several authors put together to celebrate the eighty years Scanziani of . The first volume collects the author's comments on literary path, the second part is devoted to his vision of the world (an outstanding contribution posthumous Massimo Scaliger, the affectionate profile spiritual dashed by his second wife and a Gaia Grimani short written Emilio Servadio ) and the third part contains testimonies of journalists and cultural figures.
What emerges is a portrait in the round of this isolated voice, twice proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature, which has ranged as a pansòfo Renaissance, from medicine (see the trilogy The art of longevity, L 'Art of youth and The art of healing) to zoology (Scanziani was the "creator of the Neapolitan mastiff) to literature itself. All
, to resume his neologism, from "Entronauta" or inner explorer.

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Hidden trolls "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, notebooks and the practice of Buddhism for dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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The LT's reviews - "The Legend of Buddha", by E. Schure

Edouard Schure, " The Legend of Buddha", Ades Edizioni, Milan 1994

The Alsatian Schure ( 1841-1929) made history as the author of The Great Initiates ( 1887), published in Italian for the first time since the publishing house Laterza 1920 and republished by the same publishing house in recent years. The publishing house also published Bari inspirer Women (published in the original 1908) and for the first time in Italian in 1922 ; Evolution divine, a text of 1912 republished by Tilopa in 1983.

Thought Schure of is framed in the context of theosophy, which broke away in the last year of life for the 'affaire " Krishnamurti. His vision of Buddhism is inevitably dated, avowedly inspired to "Light of Asia " by Edwin Arnold .
introduction, Om Oskraham and Halladhah Hanahit moved on the same anachronistic land, stressing that the engine of the various historical religions would be the core of their esoteric Buddhism that is the Lamaism. "... We believe that only the Tibetan Lamaism, the caretaker who was the Way of Knowledge Buddha as the Great Initiates who preceded him and followed him "(p. 17 of the introduction)." Prince Siddhartha ... was part of a very old congregation ... (the) Holy and Revered Hierarchy of Masters " (page 4 of the introduction).

Despite these reservations, however, the story is the adventure of Schure Buddha is tender and poetic, although incomplete (the famous four meetings that will push Siddhartha on the path of spiritual quest are, for example, reduced to two, the sick and the funeral).

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Wisdom "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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The LT's reviews - "The great figures of Buddhism," in M. Fuss, J. Lopez-Gay, GS Fazion

Michael Fuss, Jesus Lopez-Gay, Gianpietro are factions, "The great figures of Buddhism , Cittadella Editrice, Assisi 1995

You can reconstruct the history of Buddhism aligning the events that followed the death of Sublime , with particular attention to the formation of the different schools, or, and is the volume we present, outlining the biography of some of the characters particularly representative.

Through the biography, literary genre undoubtedly the most attractive of the test, we get also in contact with human beings who, having achieved the "Buddha nature", are an example but also the hope that "there it can do."
The fifteen teachers of the book deals are presented in chronological order, the sequence can be traced five subgroups. In the first place we
the direct disciples: Ananda , Sariputta , Maggallana and Pajapati , Siddhartha's aunt , considered by some the first woman to join the movement, however, specified as the model of Buddhist nuns.
follows a chapter on King Ashoka , lived in the third century BC C. , as a politician, then as a layman, whose actions in the world are illuminated by the light of Dharma .
The third group consists of school, and Na garjuna Buddhaghosa.
followed by representatives of schools Huineng sixth patriarch of Zen, Milarepa, the greatest exponent of the Vajrayana school Kagyupa ; Homen and Shinran, who linked their names to the Japanese school of Pure Land ; Dogen, founder of Soto Zen ; Nichiren, whose thought, centered on the Lotus Sutra and the return to orthodoxy, they rely on two very active in seven contemporary Japan: the religious movement Rissho Koseikai and political movement of the Soka Gakkai .

The excellent Fazion , of \u200b\u200bwhich we reaffirm the remarkable arrangement to writing, as well as profiles of Huineng of Milarepoa and Dogen, by his contemporaries: the Chinese Xuyun , whose diary autobiographical, " Empty Cloud" (Rome 1990) è stato recensito su Paramita n.38
e il giapponese Kodo Sawaki , maestro di Deshimru e di Kosho Uchiyama .
Fazion ha compilato anche il glossario che chiude il volume. Molto utile, e segno di una cura che vorremmo riscontrare più spesso nelle pubblicazioni sul buddhismo, è la biografia posta al termine di ogni capitolo.


Luigi Turinese


In foto: " Incantesimo "


Recensione apparsa nella rubrica "Libri" di " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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reviews of LT _ "The Dalai Lama. A policy of kindness ", (ed.) S. Piburn

Piburn Sidney (ed.)," The Dalai Lama . A policy of kindness ", published by The Meeting Point, Vicenza 1995

This anthology of writings of the Dalai Lama , which also includes contributions from journalists who have interviewed him, starts from the allocation in 1989 , the Nobel Prize for Peace in Tenzin Gyatso.

The speech given by His Holiness on that occasion is poignant and incisive. There is the suffering of all citizens the Tibetan people. We can not remain indifferent to the fact that, by confirming the truth of relentless anicca , a spiritual leader is due to become, by necessity, also a skilled political strategist. Despite the personal suffering of his people, the Dalai Lama was able to transform the experience of the diaspora in a suit opening. " There are so many different mental dispositions! Buddhism For some people simply can not function. The different religions meet the needs of different people " (p.59)

party can not analyze the sixteen chapters of the book. However we like to mention the beautiful interview John Avedon (Chapter III, "His life "), in which they reviewed the stages of the life of Tenzin Gyatso , particularly with regard to his feelings about the condition of the Dalai Lama . Or
Chapter V ("Kindness and compassion "), a masterpiece of Buddhist practice. " Whether you believe or not believe in religion or who is in rebirth or not, there is nobody who does not appreciate kindness and compassion " (p. 51).

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Confusion "


Review appeared in the "Books" to " PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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The LT's reviews -" The essential teachings, the Dalai The LT

Dalai Lama, "The essential teachings, Pearl Editions, Milan 1994

In this book, by 'editing really' summary presents two important contributions of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso .

The first, "The Path of the Bodhisattva " is an instruction given to Bodh Gaya in 1974 during initiation un'oceanica of Kalachakra. The Dalai Lama thirty-seven takes its cue from practices of the Bodhisattva , as is shown in a Tibetan text of XIII-XIV century.
Its commentary is an enlightened synthesis of the Mahayana perspective liberation.

The second part of the book is titled "The Key of Madhyamika " and exposes the way of Nagarjuna, the founder of the school just Madhyamika Buddhism, the one who first worked for the doctrine of Sunyata ( the Void).
For the truth is not an original. In fact, this text, entitled " The key to the middle way, " had already been published by the Ubaldini 1976, in a volume that included" The Buddhism of Tibet .

The overall title of the volume we are presenting, "The teachings essential ", is certainly relevant, since, as pointed out in the clear Corrado Think preface" ... the accent falls and falls, according to that wise insistence typical of the great spirituality, on the central themes of the inner journey, of course, in their formulation Mahayana-Vajrayana Buddhist : renunciation, compassion, emptiness "(p. 7).



Louis Turinese


In photos: ' old woman in the woods "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Notebooks for the practice of Buddhism and dialogue ", Year XV, No. 58, April-June 1996

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Lama's reviews - "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu, "The Art of War " Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1990

During the period of the Warring States ( V-III century BC.) , a semi-legendary warrior-philosopher, Sun Tzu , drew up a treaty for the war strategy fortunate to have over the centuries to come.

The first thing that comes to mind before this work so special is that it should be read by contemporary heads of state. " Defeating the enemy without fighting is the highest skill " Taoist strong connotation of these words of Sun Tzu we see in those who, in these dark times again, fail to resolve conflicts between peoples without fall in the agonies of war. In the treatise

Sun Tzu, on the contrary, the intent strikes "estimate", as though the warrior look more like a doctor than an imposition of death. But what leads us to profound reflection and the ability, Taoist - but also a Buddhist - to grasp with a single glance, the two terms of a contradictory phenomenon: cruelty and humanitarian action and peace.


Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Bold "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Buddhism Papers ", Year X No 38, April-June 1991

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The LT's reviews - "Empty Cloud", Xu-Yun

-Yun Xu, "Empty Cloud" Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1990

Charles Luk, who with Richard Hunn edited questo appassionante diario autobiografico, ha contribuito largamente a diffondere il buddhismo cinese in Occidente. Nato a Canton sul finire del secolo scorso , fu discepolo del grande maestro Chan Xu-Yun .

Figura quasi leggendaria, anche per la lunghissima esistenza (nato nel 1840 , morì nel 1939 : centouno anni di Dharma !), Xu-Yun fu protagonista , tra l'altro, del movimento buddhista a favore dell'autosufficienza dei monasteri. Ciò non gli risparmiò la diffidenza delle autorità, che tentarono persino di eliminarlo fisicamente quando era già ultracentenario . Sopravvissuto the brutal beating, " ... Xu-Yun has embodied a mythical figure of the Buddhist folklore, the" peacock eats poison ": the bitterness of the food is transformed into spiritual nourishment " (from the Introduction, Page . 15).

Beyond the undeniable evidence hagiographic, this autobiography is presented as an interesting insight into the contemporary conflict between materialism and spirituality, which can find its solution from the Buddhist deployment flexibility. The same -Yun Xu, who trained at the school Chan, avoiding any stiffness, the teaching of Pure Land Buddhism and devoting himself to increasing the scriptures, sutras and shastra : in any context, therefore, devising the "skillful means" to communicate the Dharma .

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Number in "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Buddhism Papers ", Year X No 38, April-June 1991

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The LT's reviews - "Woman awakened" by C. Feldman

Christina Feldman, "Women awakened!" Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1990

" ... The women bring with them a story in which they have learned to listen entries from the outside rather than internal ones. As a child, we accept the taxes of others who told us how "we had to" be and what it meant to be "brave" and "good." We respond to these requests in order to ensure, in life, a certain level of affirmation, approval and security, and so the model is consolidated ... Following the path of contemplation and meditation we can undo the knots of the influences that lead us to prostrate themselves before authority (from the Introduction, pp. 9-10).

In these words is contained the justification of the way courage that the author has undertaken and is following, and laid the foundation with Christopher Titmuss of Gaia House Meditation Centre, in Great Britain probably constitutes a milestone.

For a woman who intends to take an original path of liberation the way is certainly more difficult. This should go beyond the myths raised by the fables, in which women are waiting for salvation from the outside, projecting outside the fears and hopes, samsaric pursuit for excellence, it is proposed systematically to women, until they the introjected.
Spiritual awakening, in short, for women necessarily proceed hand in hand with a path of emancipation.

However, since there can be no liberation without women il coinvolgimento delle categorie culturali maschili, questo è un libro da consigliare assolutamente a tutti i meditanti, a prescindere dal sesso.
Per le donne Feldman propone meditazioni specifiche: sulla solitudine, sull'esplorazione del mito personale, sull'unità, su come sciogliere i nodi, sul potenziamento interiore.


Luigi Turinese


In foto: " Conturbante purezza "


Recensione apparsa nella rubrica "Libri" di " PARAMITA , Quaderni di Buddhismo ", Anno X, n. 38, Aprile-Giugno 1991

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The LT's reviews - "The gradual method to achieve enlightenment," Geshe Namgyal Wangchen

Geshe Namgyal Wangchen, " The gradual method to attain enlightenment " Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1990

The gradual path to enlightenment (Lam rim in the Tibetan tradition) is an essential practice of Mahayana . It is the development of bodhicitta , the mind of enlightenment, which pushes the bodhisattva to seek the good of all sentient beings.

In this approach, characterized by a ritual in the Tibetan version sometimes a bit 'pedantic, is the central figure of the master, from which it receives transmission teaching. Equally central is the study the texts of the masters of meditation, such is given a prominent position to the Indian Atisha ( XI century) and the Tibetan Lama Tsongkhapa ( XIV century).

" lamp street lighting " of Atisha . is considered still in Tibet the foundation of the practice of Mahayana .

Geshe Mangyal Wangchen , with the usual analytical cut in the Tibetan tradition, lists the basic requirements for the practice of meditation, meditations and then spread on the different levels of development within. Closes the book on perhaps the most interesting chapter, dedicated to the six perfections or paramita : generosity, morality, patience, perseverance, focused mind, wisdom.


Louis Turinese


In photos: 'Elegance "


Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Buddhism Papers ", Year X No 38, April-June 1991

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The LT's reviews - "Mahayana Buddhism", by P. Williams

Paul Williams, "Mahayana Buddhism " Ubaldini Editore, Rome 1999

Paul Williams, secretary of the European Association International Buddhist Studies, is a fruitful synthesis between academic erudition and Buddhist practice.
His book is a weighty and thorough academic study on the two central aspects of Mahayana Buddhism : prajna (wisdom) and karuna (compassion).
Considerable interest is the historical reconstruction of the unfolding of the different traditions from the central teachings of Sakyamuni . We read of the controversy and ridicule against the former monks of Mahayana inspiration, culminating in the statement, especially in the Far East, traditions centered on the ideal of the bodhisattva .

Detail attention is paid to Lotus Sutra and the Sutra of Prajnaparamita , cardinals Mahayana scriptures . The harvest of notes and references makes this book a landmark of historical studies on Buddhism, constituting both a challenging read for the neophyte that he expected a simple introduction to the topic.

Louis Turinese


In photos: 'The three ages of life "

Review appeared in the" Books "to" PARAM, Buddhism Papers ", Year X No 38, April-June 1991

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The LT's reviews - "Alexandra David-Neel, R. Middleton

Ruth Middleton, "Alexandra David-Neel " Astrolabe Editore, Rome 1990

The long life of Alexandra David-Neel ( 1868-1969) goes hand in hand with the development Western interest in Buddhism. This biography draws the story of a woman who was always out of place, of the original soul forever in search of the 'beyond'. L
mgratorio Instinct appears to have been the main feature of his personality, since, in his early twenties he traveled to India on the basis of an early interest in comparative religion. Following a phase in which the young French earns a living and gives space to his troubled mind doing the opera singer and a relationship with a young composer. The social pressures have, however, briefly, over, and Alexandra ends up marrying Philippe David-Neel .

It 's the 1924. After only seven years , however, the conflict concerning the status of women pushes her out of bourgeois marriage and again at the start for the East. This time Europe will last no more than ten years .

ten years when, in search of their identification, Alexandra pass through the adventures incredibili, che la condurranno, francese, donna, a divenire il primo Lama occidentale. L'uso dell'innata teatralità la aiuterà sempre nelle situazioni difficili. E' in questo periodo, culminante nel trionfale e avventuroso ingresso a Lhasa , che compare nella sua vita un giovane tibetano, Yongden, il quale diventerà segretario, compagno di ricerca, servitore, figlio, e con cui scriverà anche un libro, " Mipam, il Lama dalle cinque saggezze ".

A cinquantasei anni , travestita da tibetano, Alexandra fa dunque il suo ingresso a Lhasa , area proibita a qualunque straniero. E' il culmine di un viaggio, interiore almeno quanto geografico. " La nostra vera casa è un paese che non sta da nessuna parte ".

Luigi Turinese


In foto: " Reticolato verde "


Recensione apparsa nella rubrica "Libri" di " PARAMITA , Quaderni di Buddhismo ", Anno X, n. 38, Aprile-Giugno 1991

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The LT's reviews - "Tibet. The ritual dances of the Blade", by P. Verni, V. Sevegnani

Piero Verni, Vicky Sevegnani, " Tibet. Le danze rituali dei Lama ", Nardii Press, Firenze 1990

In qualche modo "garantita" da una presentazione the Dalai Lama, this elegant publication brings together yet another, a valuable report by Piero Verni the Land of Snow .

This time, partly because of the subject in a spectacular way that is treated, the work of writing is very suitably accompanied by beautiful photographs by Vicky Sevegnani . After an introduction to Tibetan culture and religion, interrelated to such an extent that they can ask whether this distinction is legitimate, you go to the specific topic of the book, the sacred dance or cham.
The description of costumes, masks, musical instruments and "scene" is made even more attractive by polychromatic images. The cham usually takes place in the courtyards of gompa, in front of people and therefore as public ceremony. The depth symbolic level, then, although difficult to decode literal supports this process, because it alludes to the archetypal experiences that have a value in a sense metaculturale.

We are faced, in short, a text that approaches the Tibet and that, in the words of the Dalai Lama himself , ... consetirà react better to a thrilling aspect of the beautiful, but unfortunately severely threatened Tibetan culture. "

Luigi Turinese


In foto: " Piede di gigante "


Recensione apparsa nella rubrica "Libri" di " PARAMITA , Quaderni di Buddhismo ", Anno X, n. 38, Aprile-Giugno 1991