Category: Books

I read in a Buddhist mailing list that Karen Armstrong’s new book ‘The Case for God’, which is somewhat apologetics…

‘A cheerfully likeable manifesto for lifestyle change.’ – Guardian ‘A liberating and wry take on the treadmill of modern life.’…

Hi readers, you know… moonpointer.com is meant to be Buddhist blog community, though over the years, there are few contributors….

In ‘The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck’ by Mark Waid et al, ‘The Book of Destiny‘ from…

< click to enlarge Received a rather uplifting email… “Dear Mr. Shen, I am a translator and currently I am…

I came across something interesting, from the book ‘Establishing Global Ethics’ by the recently deceased Master Sheng Yen, who presented…

I came across the book ‘Eat Sleep Sit’ at Bugis Junctions’ Books Kinokuniy. Am not ashamed to say I was…

Chanced upon this elegantly simple yet classic neo-retro Penguin book cover – ‘On the Suffering of the World’ by Arthur…

An Awareness Place (Well-being Centre) customer wanted to have a copy of The Daily Enlightenment Book 1 and 2 each….

English version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’ in Flash: http://www.buddhanet.net/flash/the-daily-enlightenment/index.html German version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’: http://kaikensho.blogspot.com/2008/01/ber-daily-enlightenment.html Indonesian version…

Did you know that ‘Padme’ means ‘lotus’, as in ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’? Did you know that the Jedi Order…

‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ is now available free at Singapore’s Awareness Place at Bras Basah Complex…

Inspired by the existentialist novel, The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus: Sometimes we remark that someone is strange, as if…

Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism,…

In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…

Snail-mailed slightly more than 100 copies of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ so far – to generous…

[It’s weird when you discover you’re ‘supposed’ to be Cambodian monk when you are not. What would you do? This…

Here is more about the book and how you get it: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDailyEnlightenment/message/660 Get it while stocks last! The Daily Enlightenment…

Just out of the printing house is ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3’. Look out for news of its launch in TDE…

The above billboard gives a hint of the heavy marketing for ‘Angels & Demons’, the prequel of ‘The DaVinci Code’…