by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Dec 10, 2025 | Blog Posts
by Robert Taylor Peter Oldmeadow’s new book, Going Beyond, does something quite remarkable. Through a dialogue between Western philosophy and Buddhism, this work gifts some of Buddhism’s sacred spark into the Western canon. Oldmeadow achieves several important aims in...
by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog Posts
12 – 14 March 2024 “It is one thing to produce a book, quite another to sell it, though some authors one meets regard the two as synonymous.”—p. 158, The Truth About Publishing by Sir Stanley Unwin (Lyons & Burford, 1960). With a couple of days before...
by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog Posts
On Sunday, 19th November 2023, Ian Green OAM in conversation with publisher Matthew Dawson launched Monumental: The Story of the Stupa at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Victoria. The event was attended by around 60 people at the...
by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog Posts
On Friday 30th June 2023, author Ven. Jampa Kalden via Zoom (Nepal), Wangdrak Rinpoche via telephone (Nangchen), and Dr. Elizabeth McDougal (Tenzin Chozom) in person, launched Calling the Lama From Afar: The Yogini Nuns of Gebchak Gompa at Temple on the...
by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog Posts
On 18th December 2022, Samuel Bercholz launched Platform Publications edition of The Gold Sutra at E-Vam Institute in Melbourne. The event saw a full house, in-person and online. Sam Bercholz delivered a wonderful teaching on how this short but...
by ben@bencrompton.com.au | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog Posts
On Saturday 24th April 2021, author Dr. Harry Oldmeadow gave a talk that launched his book, Timeless Truths and Modern Delusions: The Perennial Philosophy as a Guide for Contemporary Buddhists at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo,...
