In Transition

Rick Fields

84,000 84,000 Gates to the Dharma And mine is best. What a waste! Do your practice. Enjoy your life And let the world Argue and discuss itself To death. —Rick Fields, 9/13/98 Rick Fields was fifty-seven…

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 1999

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Houn Jiyu-Kennet Roshi

January 1, 1924—November 6, 1996

By Tricycle

Spring 1997

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

The Death of a Philosopher

Timothy Leary died on May 31, 1996. Timothy Leary died as he lived, in public. After announcing that he had inoperable prostate cancer, he held court at his Beverly Hills home, was feted at the Hog…

By Rick Fields

Fall 1996

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Lex Hixon

The awakened mind has never come into being and so cannot disappear or be destroyed, nor can it be analyzed into component parts, nor described or manipulated in any way. The mind itself, abiding calmly as…

By Tricycle

Spring 1996

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Remembering Maezumi Roshi

A Tribute by Muryo Sensei for Tetsugen Roshi

By Tricycle

Fall 1995

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

On the Passing of Buddhadasa

THE VENERABLE Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, who passed away at the age of eighty-seven on July 8, 1993, was perhaps the best-known and most controversial Thai monk in the contemporary Theravada tradition. Although adhering strictly to the conservative…

By Sulak Sivaraksa

Winter 1993

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was recognized as an incarnation of the previous Jamgon Kongtrul of the Kagyu lineage.

By Tricycle

Fall 1992

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Mary Farkas

Mary Farkas (1911-1992) Mary Farkas, director of the First Zen Institute of America, died on June 7th in New York City. She was eighty-one years old and her long life embodied the transmission of Zen from…

by [Mary Farkas](1911-1992) Tricycle

Fall 1992