Translations
A list of David's writings translated into German.
A list of David's writings translated into French.

Online Media by David Loy

Year Type Link to Media Source
Online retreat!
In December 2012 David offered a four-part online retreat with Tricycle: “Transforming Self, Transforming Earth: A Buddhist Ecology.” We are grateful to Tricycle for allowing those videos to be viewed here.
Ongoing Blog Pages David (with John Stanley, editor of ecobuddhism.org) posts a monthly blog on Buddhism and ecology on the Huffington Post HuffPost Religion, The Huffington Post
2013 Blog post Transcendence or Immanence? Balancing Heaven and Earth HuffPost Religion, The Huffington Post
2013 Video David appears briefly in Overview, a highly-recommended video recently released by Planetary Collective
2013 Audio David Loy's dharma talk "Cosmos as Transformation" Talk given at Village Zendo in April 2013
2013 Audio David Loy's contribution to "Zen Brain: Greed and Generosity. The Neuroscience and Path of Transforming Addiction." Talk given at Upaya in April 2013
2013 Audio "Melding the Western and Buddhist Traditions" Talk given at Upaya in April 2013
2013 Article "What's wrong with sex? A Buddhist perspective" (click title for PDF of article) Sexual and Relationship Therapy 2013
2013 Articles "A New Buddhist Story"
"Collective Bubbles of Delusion"
Ecobuddhism
2013 Article "Can Mindfulness Change A Corporation? An Open Letter to William George" (available also in French) Turning Wheel Media
2012 Chapter Beyond Transcendence? A Buddhist Perspective on the Axial Age (click title for PDF of chapter) After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions edited by Philip Wexler & Jonathan Garb
2012 Review A review of Leesa Davis, Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) (click title for PDF of article) Sophia vol. 51, no. 2: June 2012
2012 Article The New Year and "The New Bodhisattva" Interdependence Project
2012 Article "Healing Ecology (Tricycle)" (click title for PDF of article) Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2012
2012 Podcast "A New Story for Buddhism?" Windhorse Zen Community, November 2012
2012 Article "Enter...the Bodhisattva" (click title for PDF of article) Shambala Sun, November 2012
2012 Podcasts "Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism", Spirit Rock, May 2012 Dharma Seed
2012 Book Review "How Buddhist is Modern Buddhism?" Tricycle Magazine, Spring, 2012
2012 Online Video A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-crisis - Part 1 YouTube
2012 Article "I Vow to Be Political—Buddhism, Social Change, and Skillful Means." Transcript of Forum with Mushim Ikeda and Joan Sutherland Buddhadharma, The Practitioner's Quarterly
2011 Podcasts Dharma talks at Gaia House, Devon, England, June 2011 Gaia House
2011 Three Podcasts “Why Buddhism Needs the West”
“The Suffering of Self”
“Healing Ecology: a Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-Crisis”
Secular Buddhist Association
2011 Podcast Ethan Nichtern, David Loy and Michael Stone discuss the Occupy movement The Interdependence Project
2011 Interview “Waking Up from the Nightmare:
Buddhist Reflections on Occupy Wall Street” Tikkun
Upaya Institute
2011 Lecture (Video) “Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other: the nonduality of personal and social transformation” Naropa University
2011 Huffington Post blog by John Seed "Selling Iowa's Pollock Mural: A Zen Buddhist Perspective" Rev. Danny Fisher
2011 Interview Interview with David Loy Sweeping Zen, the definitive online who's who of Zen
2011 Article (with Bhikkhu Bodhi and John Stanley) A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change Ecological Buddhism
2010 Article “Self Transformation, Social Transformation” Tikkun Magazine
2011 Online Video Healing Ecology: Buddhist Reflections on the Eco-crisis YouTube
2010 Article “The Dharma of Alienation” Dharma World Magazine
2010 Article "What Would the Buddha Do?” The Engaged Zen Foundation
2010 Article “A Universe Struggling to Become Aware?” Tikkun
2010 PDF Article "A Different 'Enlightened' Jurisprudence?" Saint Louis University Law Journal
2010 Podcast Money, Sex, War, and Karma Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Upaya Dharma Podcasts, vol. 17 (2010)
2010 Book Review Secular Buddhism? Review of Stephen Batchelor's "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist" Tricycle, Fall, 2010
2010 Article Healing Ecology (Journal of Buddhist Ethics) Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 17 (2010)
2010 Article Why We Love War PBS Discussion of the David Grubin film, The Buddha
2010 Article The Cosmos Wakes Up Shambala Sun, November, 2010, p. 64.
2010 Audio Interview Ethan Nichtern Interviews David; in two parts The Interdependence Project
2009 Interview & Essay The Midas Economy: Buddhist Reflections on the Financial Crisis Inquiring Mind
2009 Blog Entry A collective awakening? (Buddhist reflections on Copenhagen) Shambala Sunspace blog
2009 Blog Entry Barack Obama, “The War President” Shambala Sunspace blog
2009 Article The Nonduality of Ecology and Economy Shambala Sunspace blog
2008 Magazine Column Rethinking Karma: How are we meant to understand this key Buddhist teaching? Tricycle Magazine, Spring, 2008
2008 Video Attention-Deficit Society: Consciousness Fragmented, Commodified, and Controlled Clicker, the Internet Television Guide
2007 PDF Document The Three Poisons, Institutionalized The Buddhist Channel
2007 Article (PDF) The Lack of Money Tikkun Vol. 22 no. 4 (2007):17-18.
2007 Book Chapter
(PDF)
The Karma of Women The Religious Roots of Violence Against Women (Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 2007), eds. Judith Plaskow and Marvin Ellison, pp. 49 - 65.
2007 Article The New Holy War Between Good and Evil Tikkun Vol. 22 no. 6 (2007), pp. 16-18.
2006 PDF Article THE THREE INSTITUTIONAL POISONS
Challenging Collective Greed, Ill Will, & Delusion
Insight Journal
2006 Article The Second Buddha: the work of Nagarjuna, Buddhism's greatest philosopher Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2006
2006 Article (PDF) The Suffering of Self David Loy
2005 Interview Lack and Liberation in Self and Society: An Interview with David Loy HOLOS Forum for a New Worldview
2004 Article "Terror in the God-Shaped Hole: A Buddhist Perspective on Modernity’s Identity Crisis" Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
2004 Article "The Dharma of the Rings: A Myth for Engaged Buddhism?" Kyoto Journal
2003 Article “What Are You Really Afraid Of?” Tricycle Magazine
2003 Book Chapter Remaking the World, or Remaking Ourselves? Buddhist Reflections on Technology Peter Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, and Roger Ames, ed., Technology and Cultural Values: on the edge of the third millennium (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), 176-187.
2003 Article Buddhist Reflections on the New Gulf War The Eurasian Conflict Region Forum, WRInet Conflict Forum
2002 Article "The West Against the Rest? A Buddhist Response to The Clash of Civilizations" The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
2002 Article (PDF) Momo, Dogen, and the Commodification of Time (co-written with Linda Goodhew) KronoScope Vol. 2 no. 1 (2002), pp. 97-107.
2002 Article (PDF) The Lack of Technological Progress ReVision Vol. 24 no. 4 (2002), pp. 27-33.
2000 Interview Interview for Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawaii Press
2000 Article (PDF) Saving Time: A Buddhist Perspective on the End Contemporary Buddhism  vol. 1 no. 1 (May 2000), pp. 35-51.
2000 Article How to Reform a Serial Killer: The Buddhist Approach to Restorative Justice Journal of Buddhist Ethics Vol. 7 (2000), pp. 145-168.
1999 Article “Buddhism and Poverty” Un Zen Occidental
1999 Article (PDF) Language Against its Own Mystifications: Deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen Philosophy East & West Vol. 49 no. 3 (1999), pp. 245-260.
1998 Book Chapter Can Corporations Become Enlightened? A Buddhist Critique of Transnational Corporations Globalisation: The Perspectives and Experiences of the Religious Traditions of Asia Pacific, ed. by Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: International Movement for a Just World, 1998), 63-67.
1998 Article The Religion of Consumption: A Buddhist Perspective (with Jonathan Watts) Development Vol. 41 no. 1 (March 1998), pp. 61-66.
1997 Article (PDF) The Religion of the Market Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 65 no. 2 (1997), pp. 275-290.
1996 Book Chapter Zhuangzi and Nagarjuna on the Truth of No Truth Kjellberg and Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 1996), 50-67.
1996 Book Chapter Dead Words, Living Words, and Healing Words: The Disseminations of Dogen and Eckhart David Loy, ed., Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity (Atlanta: Scholar Press, 1996), 33-51.
1996 Article Beyond good and evil? A Buddhist critique of Nietzsche Asian Philosophy Vol. 6 No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 37-58.
1995 Article Is Zen Buddhism? The Eastern Buddhist Vol. 28 no. 2 (Autumn 1995), pp. 273-286.
1995 Article The Dharma of Emanuel Swedenborg: A Buddhist Perspective Arcana (Journal of the Swedenborg Association) Vol. 2 no. 1 (1995), pp. 5-31.
1995 Article On the Duality of culture and Nature Philosophica Vol. 55 (1995), pp. 9-35.
1994 Article Preparing For Something That Never Happens: The Means/Ends Problem in Modern Culture International Studies in Philosophy Vol. 26 no. 4, pp.47-67.
1993 Article Indra's Postmodern Net Philosophy East and West Vol. 43 no. 3 (July 1993), pp. 481-510.
1993 Article Transcendence East and West Man and World Vol. 26 no. 4 (December 1993), pp. 403-427.
1992 Article Trying to Become Real: A Buddhist Critique of Some Secular Heresies International Philosphical Quarterly Vol. 32 no. 4 (December 1992), pp. 403-425.
1992 Article Avoiding the Void: The Lack of Self in Psychotherapy and Buddhism Journal of Transpersonal Psychology Vol. 24 no. 2 (1992), pp. 151-179.
1992 Article The Deconstruction of Buddhism Derrida and Negative Theology, eds. Harold Coward and Toby Foshay (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992), 227-253.
1992 Article What's Wrong with Being and Time: A Buddhist Critique Time and Society Vol. 1 no. 2 (May 1992), pp. 239-255.
1991 Article Buddhism and Money: The Repression of Emptiness Today Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society Vol. 31 (1991), pp. 297-312.
1990 Article The Nonduality of Life and Death: A Buddhist View of Repression Philosophy East and West Vol. 40 no. 2 (April 1990), pp. 151-174.
1988 Article The Path of No-path: Sankara and Dogen on the Paradox of Practice Philosophy East and West Vol. 38 no. 2 (April 1988), pp. 127-146.
1985 Article The Paradox of Causality in Mādhyamika International Philosophical Quarterly
1985 Article Wei-wu-wei: Nondual Action Philosophy East and West, vol.35, no.1 (January 1985), pp. 73-87.
1985 Article Mu and its Implications Zen Buddhism Today Vol. 3 (1985), pp. 108-124.
1983 Article The Difference between Samsara and Nirvana Philosophy East and West Vol. 33 no. 4 (October 1983):355-365.
1982 Article Enlightenment in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta: Are Nirvana and Moksha the Same? International Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 22 no. 1 (March 1982), pp. 65-74.