About the Author
I am the Director of St Antony’s Priory, a retreat centre in Durham, and the founder of ‘Just Meditation’ and the Newcastle Meditation Centre (2016-20).
My books are mostly about spirituality and meditation practice.
I have a PhD in Buddhist philosophy from Cambridge, and I am an Anglican priest. Meditation has been a central part of my life for many years, and I have studied and practised extensively within both Buddhist and Christian monastic traditions since the 1990s.
In 2014 I created Just Meditation in order to develop a distinctive approach to the learning and practice of meditation that is simple, accessible and inclusive: everyday meditation for everyone.
Books by Nicholas Buxton
A selection of my publications
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I have always wanted to be a writer and am constantly jotting down ideas and thinking of future projects.
Current plans include an audio lecture series on the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, a book that will explore the idea of Christianity as a spiritual path, and a follow up book about meditation entitled ‘More than Just Meditation’.
Bibliography
Books
Just Meditation: everyday meditation for everyone, Durham: Magic Monastery, 2020.
The Wilderness Within: Meditation and Modern Life, London: Canterbury Press, 2014.
Ed. with R. Noake, Religion, Society and God: The Role of Faith in Contemporary Britain, London: SCM Press, 2013.
Tantalus and the Pelican: Exploring Monastic Spirituality Today, London: Continuum Books, 2009.
Audio Books
The Wisdom of the Desert, Wise Studies, 2018.
Articles and Chapters
Prayer for the Day Vol II: 365 Inspiring Daily Reflections (contributor), London: Watkins Publishing, 2016.
Prayer for the Day Vol I: 365 Inspiring Daily Reflections (contributor), London: Watkins Publishing, 2014.
‘Creating the Sacred: Artist as Priest, Priest as Artist’ in Arya, R. (Ed.), Contemplations of the Spiritual in Art, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.
Review of Laura Belém and Shaeron Caton-Rose, Art and Christianity 71 (2012): 9-10.
Review of Air and Aether, Liverpool Cathedral, Art and Christianity 65 (2011): 15.
‘Not Exactly a Selling Point: Religion and Reality TV’ in Thomas, L. (Ed.), Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability: Paradise Lost? London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
‘Seeing the Self as Other: Televising Religious Experience’ in Deacy, C. and Arweck, E. (Eds), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
‘Stability’ in Holdaway, G. (Ed.), The Oblate Life: A Handbook for Spiritual Formation, Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2008.
‘The Crow and the Coconut: Accident, coincidence, and causation in the Yogavasistha.’ Philosophy East & West 56 (2006): 393-409.
Review of G. Fields, ‘Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra’ (New York 2001) Mental Health, Religion & Culture 6 (2003): 103-105.
‘Is Jung’s view of God a non-realist one?’ Filozofija 2 (2002): 71-82.