![]() ![]() So we set out to look for who else might be turning to this writing right now and quickly landed on the extraordinary musician and artist Devendra Banhart. ![]() So do others on our team, including our executive producer Liliana Maria Percy Ruíz and our art director Erin Colasacco. I’m not Buddhist, but I carry this book with me wherever I go. She’s one of the greatest living teachers and writers in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. When Things Fall Apart is a tiny volume by Pema Chödrön. Krista Tippett, host: We live in unusual times and this is an unusual show - a kind of “spiritual book club” edition of On Being. Shambhala Publications, which publishes When Things Fall Apart as well as many other books by Pema Chödrön, is a 50 year old independent family-owned publisher of books and is not affiliated with any other organization or meditation center. ![]() Pema Chödrön apologized shortly after that report was released, and in 2020 she announced her retirement as Shambhala teacher in a letter to the Shambhala community. Pema Chödrön, who was part of the Shambhala community when those incidents occurred, was named in that report as having dismissed a claim of sexual assault from a woman. Editor’s note: In 2018, the Buddhist Project Sunshine released reports on sexual violence and misconduct in the Shambhala Buddhist community going as far back as 1983. ![]()
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