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Back to the heart of Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine” Back to the heart of Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine” His Holiness Visits Lamdon School and the Ladakhi Muslims in Leh Pema Chödrön’s “virtual retreat” goes viral Back to the heart of Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine” Posted: 31 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT The latest hubbub in the literary world — or at least the world of literary nonfiction — is all about Jonah Lehrer and his book, Imagine: How Creativity Works . Lehrer was a well-known staff writer for the New Yorker, but resigned that post yesterday due to the revelation that he had included in the book Bob Dylan quotes that, unfortunately, weren't by Bob Dylan at all. These quotes, about Dylan's songwriting, were fabricated by Lehrer himself. That's bad news for the author but not necessarily for the book, which has already sold some 200,000 copies. And being that the book is nonfiction, a James Frey / A Million Little Pie

Video: See more of Samsara Video: See more of Samsara The XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies to be held in Vienna in 2014 The Tyranny Of Numbers - Counting Sheep! His Holiness Inaugurates Science Building at Lamdon School and Visits Ladakhi Muslims at Idgah, Leh. This Week in the Press: Stories of interest to Shambhala Sun readers Sri Lankan Youth At Risk of Beheading for Praying to Buddha in Saudi Arabia From The Under 35 Project: “No Cheating” Field Of Merit - New Project Launched His Holiness gives monastic ordination, meets with ITBF and visits a school in Leh Kasur Alak Jigme Thinley Phuntsok dies at 72 Reflections of Raymond Report: Buddhist monks in Burma shunning Muslims, blocking humanitarian aid Video: See more of Samsara Posted: 30 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT We've told you before about Samsara , director Ron Fricke&#