Overmorrow’s Library

S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West

Episode Summary

The second season of Overmorrow’s Library is dedicated to world-building, world-ending, and travel across worlds. Federico Campagna presents a new selection of books that might help us to appreciate the fragility of ‘worlds’, and the art of creating new ones through a particular use of our imagination. Federico Campagna interviews Manlio Poltronieri, from the London Buddhist Centre, on the many traditions of Buddhism, across East and West.

Episode Notes

Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.