Buddhism, Culture and Transformation

About the Book

The book Buddhism for Transformation Today is thematically divided into Buddhism, mind and science, and on culture and social transformation. It has a cross-cultural perspective. The last section is focused on Dalai Lama’s ideas and contains an interview with him. The book crosses disciplinary boundaries and bridges ideas in subjects like philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Some of the key ideas explored are happiness and business management. The interface between the individual and society can be significant and is expected to aid personal transformation and desirable social change.

About the Author

Prahlad Singh Shekhawat www.prahladsingh.net Director Alternative Development and Research Centre Jaipur.   Research Associate, International Network for Personal Meaning in Toronto Canada, but living in India. Researching on happiness and wellbeing that is meaningful. M A in Development Studies,International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands. Certificate in Creative Writing, University of Oxford. Certificate in Ecovillage Design Education from Wongsanit Ashram in Thailand.  Course in the Power of Communities (ecological), from the Schumacher College in the UK.   Author of nine books including four poetry books Published Books: Aspects of Human Development and Culture, launched by the then Vice President of India, Sri Bhairon Singh. Literature and Ideas, Independent Media Foundation, Delhi.  West Rajasthan: Ecology, Culture & Development. Cooperative Dairy Development in India: Replication in Rajasthan. University Book House, Jaipur. 2008. Human Development, Well-being and Globalisation, Rawat Publishers, Jaipur, 2012. Poetry Books include: Being, Belonging &Wonder Becoming, Writer’s Workshop, Kolkata, 2000. My poem was included in Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of Indian Poems in English, Silent Brooks Press, Canada, 2010. Wandering & Wondering, Partridge for Penguins, 2016. Travelling Here and There, Authors Press, Delhi, 2018. Safar (Poems in Urdu), Authors Press, Delhi, 2018. Forthcoming Books: Alternative Development and Social Progress, and New Pathways for Human Progress, both have been accepted by Cambridge Publishing, UK. Wrote a column for the Hindustan Times Jaipur edition and contributed articles to The Hindu,  Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India etc, and to a few foreign publications like the Resurgence Magazine, UK, Policy Innovations, USA, Seeds of Peace in Thailand. Delivered lectures at:  The Green Academy in Graz, Austria Kansai Gadai University, Osaka, Japan  Ithaca Ecological Community in Upstate New York,USA O.U.R. Ecovillage community, Victoria Islands near Vancouver, Canada The Advanced Center of Philosophy, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur  Sadhana Forest Project in Auroville, Tamil Nadu  Speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival in 2014 and recently in January, 2019 when my new book on the life of a Rajasthani artist was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Received the Star of Asia Award for my written and social work, presented by the International Business Council in Delhi.