{"id":7,"date":"2017-04-30T04:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2018-09-17T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T20:24:21","slug":"book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/","title":{"rendered":"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise and Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award <\/strong>
\nfor Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

We have a Find my iPhone app – but we need to find our “I.” Who am I, and who do I become when I engage on social media? How do I come to myself and my highest, most transcendent possibilities? How do I cultivate wisdom, compassion and love in this shrinking world that threatens to tear\u00a0itself apart?<\/i><\/p>\n

Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks<\/i><\/b> is a rich modern memoir of relationship online and off, a state-of-the-art exploration of psychological research about social media, and an engaging\u00a0introduction to Buddhism.<\/p>\n

What happens to the heart and mind as we engage online?<\/b>\u00a0 In these politically charged and divided times, how can we connect? \u00a0Social media offers many inspiring and heady possibilities, as well as dangers. \u00a0Chandra explores our transformed social terrain thoughtfully and with humor, as he leads the reader on a spiritual quest for transcendence.<\/p>\n

ADVANCE PRAISE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI heartily recommend\u00a0Facebuddha<\/b><\/em>, a wonderfully written, exciting and at times elegiac and rhapsodic presentation of the potentials and difficulties of connecting in relationship – especially in our modern age of technology and as seen through a Buddhist lens. \u00a0Ravi Chandra is a wonderful storyteller, a psychiatrist, a Buddhist student and teacher, an Asian American, and an able, eloquent writer with the capacity and personal experience to address all the contemporary issues this book brings together.\u00a0\u00a0I think Facebuddha<\/strong> will be inspiring to many, many people.\u201d
\n<\/i>Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D.,<\/strong> Buddhist teacher and author
\nCo-founder, Spirit Rock Meditation Center<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cFacebuddha<\/i><\/strong> is both personal journey and social commentary, a good-hearted meander across cultural, artistic and occupational worlds that explores a deep concern for our modern dilemmas with the perspective of a devoted Buddhist.\u201d
\nJack Kornfield, Ph.D.,<\/strong> Buddhist teacher and author
\nCo-founder Spirit Rock Meditation Center<\/p>\n

\n

“Facebuddha<\/strong><\/i> is magnificent, a breathtakingly personal work that combines memoir, media commentary, Buddhist practicum and depth psychology. Like Martin Luther\u2019s theses, these chapters are nailed on the door of the Cathedral of Technology asking us to look beyond our screens by way of reforming contemporary indulgences. As we do so our world moves beneath the surface sheen and towards the interior. Ravi Chandra\u2019s effervescent prose locates compassion, in his own soul and in the soul of humanity, in real world relationships endangered by modernity. ”
\nF.B. Steele, M.D.,<\/strong> psychiatrist and teacher
\nFormer Executive Director, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

“A very personal, often funny, warmly intelligent, thoughtful and heartfelt journey to transcendence!” \u00a0\u2013 Tamlyn Tomita<\/strong>, actor<\/p>\n

\n

“An exhortation to cultivate genuine love, kindness, and compassion.” \u2013\u00a0Deann Borshay Liem<\/strong>, director and producer<\/p>\n

\n

“Thought-provoking, engagingly written, and enriched by memoir and haiku-like stories and vignettes.”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Francis Lu, M.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

“Poetic and poignant! Ravi Chandra portrays the importance of truly relating to people.” \u2013\u00a0Louise Nayer<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Burned: A Memoir<\/i><\/p>\n

\n

“Facebuddha<\/i>\u00a0is an invitation to depth and personal growth.” \u2013\u00a0Stephen Gong<\/strong>, Executive Director, CAAM<\/p>\n

AVAILABLE IN STORES and ONLINE<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Sign up for a newsletter!!!<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review, Clinical Psychiatry News: ‘Facebuddha’ analyzes psychology of social media through a Buddhist lens<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Hyphen Magazine: “Psychiatrist Ravi Chandra Explores Social Media Culture through a Buddhist Lens in Facebuddha”<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley: “How to use social media wisely and mindfully”<\/a> January, 2018<\/p>\n

\n

Psychology Today cover story Nov\/Dec 2017 – “The Comparison Trap”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought We have a Find my iPhone app – but we need to find our “I.” Who am I, and who do I become when I engage on social media? How do I come to myself and my highest, most transcendent possibilities? How do … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “About Facebuddha, Advance Praise and Press”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAbout Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Facebuddha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Facebuddhabook\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-17T20:24:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@going2peace\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/\",\"name\":\"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-30T04:40:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-17T20:24:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\\\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1\",\"width\":5760,\"height\":3840},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/book\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise and Press\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/\",\"name\":\"Facebuddha\",\"description\":\"transcendence in the age of social networks\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Facebuddha\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/17-05-FaceBuddha-F-RGB.jpg?fit=1043%2C1494&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/17-05-FaceBuddha-F-RGB.jpg?fit=1043%2C1494&ssl=1\",\"width\":1043,\"height\":1494,\"caption\":\"Facebuddha\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebuddha.co\\\/Enter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/Facebuddhabook\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/going2peace\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/rchandra\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/rchandra2006\\\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video","description":"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video","og_description":"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/","og_site_name":"Facebuddha","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Facebuddhabook\/","article_modified_time":"2018-09-17T20:24:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059-1024x683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@going2peace","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/","url":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/","name":"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise, Press, Audio and Video","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1","datePublished":"2017-04-30T04:40:43+00:00","dateModified":"2018-09-17T20:24:21+00:00","description":"Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award for Religion\/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. View Advance Praise, Press, and Audio and Video.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/02_08_2018_FaceBuddha-059.jpg?fit=5760%2C3840&ssl=1","width":5760,"height":3840},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/book\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About Facebuddha, Advance Praise and Press"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/","name":"Facebuddha","description":"transcendence in the age of social networks","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#organization","name":"Facebuddha","url":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/17-05-FaceBuddha-F-RGB.jpg?fit=1043%2C1494&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/17-05-FaceBuddha-F-RGB.jpg?fit=1043%2C1494&ssl=1","width":1043,"height":1494,"caption":"Facebuddha"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Facebuddhabook\/","https:\/\/x.com\/going2peace","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rchandra\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rchandra2006\/"]}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8GgNm-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.facebuddha.co\/Enter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}