A documentary on the training of wood sculptors who create Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and deities for the thousands of shrines throughout Japan.

This week from Zen cyber space, the Dalai Lama talks about what is often forgotten by westerners practicing Buddhism, an interreligious dialogue on faith and science ahead of the COP26 and how love is not all we need.

Michael Haggiag reviews this highly personal account of a writer struggling to come to terms with Zen training, his search for awakening and himself.

This week from Zen Cyberspace, overworked and overwhelmed, how Buddhism can inform AI and how to encourage your teenager to meditate.

A whistleblower gives an insight into how big tech uses emotional triggers to increase clicks. Developing emotional intelligence can give us a bulwark against being manipulated in this way.

This week we commemorate Bodhidharma Day with a recorded service from Daifukuji Temple and visit the grottos of Huashi Temple in China which are over 1,200 years old.

Is Buddhism’s bottom line the oft-quoted “Be a lamp unto yourselves?” This may be a lovely, liberating thought when we are casting off reliance upon external authority. But sometimes being our own illumination can feel lonely indeed.

Environmentalist Stephanie Kaza invites us to consider how Buddhist principles can help us nurse the planet back to health.

Marco Pallis (1895-1989) was a member of the Traditionalists, a group of writers who believed in the ‘Perennial Wisdom’ of all religions. In later life he worked for the Tibet Society housing many refugees in his London flat witnessing the strange and magic culture of the Tibetan refugees

If you’re not trying to get somewhere, says Judy Lief, nothing can stop you.

Martin examines the mythical imagery of water. From folk tales to Arthurian legends; we look at how water has been used to convey the mystical workings of the inner world, it’s powers for healing and what it can tell us about our own practice.