Barbara Gates

Barbara Gates is the author of Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place and founding editor, with Wes Nisker, of the Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind (1984–2015).

Cycles of Motherhood

A practitioner reflects on her mother’s uniquely challenging qualities following a trip to the emergency room.

By Barbara Gates

Spring 2020

My Teacher, The Tree

Thai Buddhist monk Ajahn Pasanno and environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill discuss what nature can teach us about love in an interview with Inquiring Mind.

By Kim Criswell, Barbara Gates, and Wes Nisker

Aug 15, 2018

In the Bathtub of the Masters

Sometimes a forbidden soak is just what you need—to find peace.

By Barbara Gates

Fall 2016

Magazine Society & Environment

Standing as Equals

A conversation with Rinchen Khando Choegyal, founder of the Tibetan Nuns Project

By Barbara Gates

Winter 2013

Under the Pavement

Barbara Gates learns to use a jackhammer to uncover the neglected realms of the self.

By Barbara Gates

Fall 2003

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While travel remains limited for much of the world, author Paolo Coluzzi transports the reader to Lumbini, Bodhgaya, Sarnath, and Kushinagar through his personal stories and historical context.

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Sep 24, 2021

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Stepping Back onto the Silk Road

An ambitious retrospective lets us view China’s ancient network of Buddhist caves at Dunhuang through the lenses of pioneering photographers James and Lucy Lo.

By Julia Hirsch

Fall 2021

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A New Paradigm for Science and Religion

Since the time of Galileo, science and religion have increasingly appeared to be at odds, with religion slowly but surely losing the battle, B. Alan Wallace observes. His series presents a paradigm in which science and religion join together in a spirit of radical empiricism and open-minded, experiential inquiry.

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Sep 2021

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