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

Online Articles by David Loy

Year Type Link to Media Source
Ongoing Article Find a list of David Loy's articles published in Tricycle Tricyle
2024 Article O mundo é feito de histórias (Portuguese)/The world is made of stories Bodhisattva Magazine
2023 Article Why Buddhism Needs the West (Vietnamese) Thu Vien Hoa Sen - The Lotus Library (Vietnamese)
2023 Article The Nature of Lack Un Zen Occidental
2023 Article David Loy: Ecology & Dharma Somatic Primer Podcast
2023 Article Le changement climatique, un défi pour les bouddhistes ? (French) Refuge du Plessis
2023 Article A Gathering in the Woods: Reflections on an Eco-Advisory Retreat for Dharma Leaders One Earth Sangha
2023 Article Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness Awaken
2022 Article I vow to be Political One Earth Sangha
2022 Article Was kann Buddha Aktivisten beibringen? / What can the Buddha teach Activists (German) Christa Dreggerh, Zeitpunkt
2022 Article The Buddha on Poverty and Plutocracy One Earth Sangha
2022 Artile "The Work of David Loy" by Tasshin Blog post about David
2021 Article The Dharma of the Rings, A Zen teacher’s Buddhist take on The Lord of the Rings Tricycle
2021 Article The Deep Hunger Inquiring Mind
2021 Article First part of the Portugese Translation of Ecodharma Tricycle
2021 Article Awakening in the Age of Climate Change Tricycle
2021 Article Religion as Umbrella, Religion as Path: A Buddhist Perspective on Death Denial and Life Transformation Facing Up to Mortality: Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations
2021 Article Racism as Delusion: A Buddhist Perspective MDPI
2021 Article Le bouddhisme face a l'enjeu climatique (French/Français) Notions Cles
2021 Article Buddhadharma Excerpt & How to Be an Ecosattva (French/Français) Le Buddhisme face à la Crise Climatique
2020 Article "Ecodharma: a new Buddhist path?" Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
2020 Article "Terror in the God-shaped hole – Confronting modernity’s identity crisis" The Transnational
2019 Article "The Deep Roots of Mara and Mammon: The Implications of Evolutionary Psychology" (link opens PDF) Buddhist-Christian Studies
2019 Article "How to Be an Ecosattva" Lion's Roar
2019 Article "In the Shadows of Transference" Mountain Cloud Zen Center Blog
2019 Article "Can Buddhism Meet the Climate Crisis?" Lion's Roar
2017 Article "How a Growing Buddhist Movement is Responding to the Ecological Crisis" (PDF of article) Tricyle
2017 Article "In Search of the Sacred" (link opens a PDF. Original article here.) Tricyle
2017 Article "The Dharma of Deconstruction" Tricyle
2017 Article "Are Humans Special?" (link opens a PDF) Tikkun
2016 Article "The Challenge of Mindful Engagement" (link opens a PDF) Handbook of Mindfulness
2015 Article "The World Is Made of Stories" Tricycle
2015 Article "The Conversation is Changing" Buddhist Peace Fellowship
2015 Article "Why We Love War" Vox Populi
2015 Article "Awakening in the Age of Climate Change" (PDF version) Tricycle
2015 Article "Healing Ecology: Discovering Our Collective Place in the World" (also at Vox Populi) One Earth Sangha
2014 Article "How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?" Science & Nonduality
2014 Article "Listening to the Buddha: how greed, ill-will and delusion are poisoning our institutions" openDemocracy: Transformation
2013 Article "Why Buddhism and the West Need Each Other: On the Interdependence of Personal and Social Transformation" (click title for PDF) Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 20
2013 Article "Karma: Fate or Freedom?" An Introduction to a Discussion with Rita M. Gross, Larry Ward, and Andrew Olendzki (PDF) Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
2013 Article "Toward a New Buddhist Story" Tikkun Magazine
2013 Article "What's wrong with sex? A Buddhist perspective" (click title for PDF of article) Sexual and Relationship Therapy 2013
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 "Healing Ecology (Tricycle version)" (click title for PDF of article) Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2012
2012 Article "Enter...the Bodhisattva" (click title for PDF of article) Shambala Sun, November 2012
2012 Book Review "How Buddhist is Modern Buddhism?" Tricycle Magazine, Spring, 2012
2011 Interview Interview with David Loy Sweeping Zen, the definitive online who's who of Zen
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 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)
2009 Interview & Essay The Midas Economy: Buddhist Reflections on the Financial Crisis Inquiring Mind
2009 Article The Nonduality of Ecology and Economy Shambala Sunspace blog
2008 Article "Awareness Bound and Unbound: Realizing the Nature of Attention" (opens PDF) Philosophy East and West
2008 Magazine Column Rethinking Karma: How are we meant to understand this key Buddhist teaching? Tricycle Magazine, Spring, 2008
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 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" (link opens a PDF) 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.
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.
2023 Article (PDF) Teaching against the “False Religion” of the Market: Toward Explicitly Anticapitalist Teaching and Research in Religion and the Environment (about David's The Religion of the Market) MDPI Open Access Journals
1997 Article A Zen Cloud? Comparing Zen Koan Practice with The Cloud of Unknowing Budhi. A Journal of Ideas and Culture. Vol. 1 no. 2 (1997), pp. 15-37.
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.
1986 Article The Mahayana Deconstruction of Time Philosophy East and West Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 1986), 13-23
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.