All but Appeared: On Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne”
Liesl Schwabe reviews Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India.”
Liesl Schwabe is a writer and educator. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Words Without Borders, the American Literary Review, Off Assignment, and LitHub, among other publications. She previously served as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and as the writing program director at Yeshiva College. She is currently a scholar associate at the Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, and the director of the Writing Center at Berkshire Community College.
Liesl Schwabe reviews Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India.”
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot.
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."