Hello,

My name is Jonathan Warren, and this is my personal/philosophy/poetry blog. For my main website, please go to warren.info.

My philosophical background is most focused on early Indian and Sino-Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and history, which I studied at Reed College (Portland, Oregon, USA). I have been a practicing Buddhist of different types since the mid-1990s. I am currently most affiliated with Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhism, via Bhante Gunaratana's Bhavana Society near Washington, DC. In addition to dense philosophical texts and Sri Lankan Theravada, I have also had personal experiences with the following types of Buddhism, from most-to-least: Thai Theravada (mostly the Dhammayuttika Nikaya), the Vipassana meditation movement in the U.S. (the topic of my undergraduate thesis), the Gelug (i.e., Dalai Lama's) sect of Tibetan Buddhism, Chögyam Trungpa's Shambhala Buddhism, Korean Chogye Son (via Seung Sahn's school), and Japanese Soto Zen. I'm also moderately knowledgeable about many other religions and schools of Asian and Near-Eastern philosophy.