Charles Johnson and Peter Matthiessen

I have just finished Charles Johnson's Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard .

I had heard of Matthiessen and The Snow Leopard, but Charles Johnson's name was new to me...and shame on me for that. Both books deal with Buddhism in some degree, though my reading of them was incidental to any interest in Buddhist philosophy.

Charles Johnson is a novelist, philosopher, and practicing Buddhist. His novel Middle Passage won the National Book Award in...