ADAM PHILLIPS has been a freelance journalist and audio documentarian for NPR, the CBC and other public radio venues since 1986, and staff journalist at the Voice of America since 1993. Adam has received nearly 20 international, national and in-house awards for his work, including Religion Reporter of the Year, and the New York Festivals Grand Prize. A longtime student of Buddhism, he has interviewed many of Buddhism’s best known dharma practitioners, including the Dalai Lama, Tara Brach, Rick Fields, Gary Snyder, Jane Hirshfield, Sogyal Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov. Adam has also produced sound-rich audio documentaries that either profile Buddhist communities or personalities, or which explore Buddhist subjects such as spirituality and the dying process, Alan Ginsberg, jazz, poetry and spontaneous mind, and the culture of Buddhism in the West. Adam Phillips teaches at the New School’s Media Studies graduate program, and conducts oral history workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
ADAM PHILLIPS has been a freelance journalist and audio documentarian for NPR, the CBC and other public radio venues since 1986, and staff journalist at the Voice of America since 1993. Adam has received nearly 20 international, national and in-house awards for his work, including Religion Reporter of the Year, and the New York Festivals Grand Prize. A longtime student of Buddhism, he has interviewed many of Buddhism’s best known dharma practitioners, including the Dalai Lama, Tara Brach, Rick Fields, Gary Snyder, Jane Hirshfield, Sogyal Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov. Adam has also produced sound-rich audio documentaries that either profile Buddhist communities or personalities, or which explore Buddhist subjects such as spirituality and the dying process, Alan Ginsberg, jazz, poetry and spontaneous mind, and the culture of Buddhism in the West. Adam Phillips teaches at the New School’s Media Studies graduate program, and conducts oral history workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
