Douglas Penick

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Love Passing Beneath Shadows

A playwright and a poet create beauty in the face of death in Letters from Max.

Spring 2019

Exploring What Is

Buddhism advises us to accept everything in our experience, pleasant and unpleasant, as our own. One practitioner on using the Buddha’s first teachings as a lodestar during the frightening uncertainty of aging.

By Douglas Penick

Nov 08, 2018

Magazine

Bidia Dandaron

Prisoner, lama, and “neo-Buddhist” heir to a Russian dharma king

By Douglas Penick

Fall 2018

Magazine History & Philosophy

X-rated Tips from an Ex-Monk

A new translation of The Passion Book brings to light author Gendun Chopel’s belief that even sexual pleasure could be a path to enlightenment.

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2018

Magazine History & Philosophy

Lubsan Samdan Tsydenov

A Vanished Buddhist King

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2018

Magazine Arts & Culture

The Art That Opens

The creations of culture are far more than high-status objects—they connect us with otherwise inaccessible worlds that reach across individual time and place.

By Douglas Penick

Fall 2017

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Magazine

A World Ever at Its End

Living on amid the destruction of everything we ever knew

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2017

lama chopel at the temple he build in hungary

Magazine

A Lama in Hungary

Douglas Penick interviews Lama Chopel.

By Douglas Penick, Photography by Tamas Szemann

Fall 2016

Magazine

Becoming Buddha

Encounters on the path

By Douglas Penick, Photography by Hans Georg Berger

Summer 2016

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Sutta Study: Ill

In the Gilana Sutta, the Buddha offers a potent teaching on impermanence to an ailing and distressed monk.

By Peter Doobinin

Apr 17, 2019

Magazine

The Buddhist Review

Detained Japanese Americans arrive at an assembly center in Santa Anita, California.

History & Philosophy

Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra

With the outbreak of World War II, Japanese Americans were incarcerated by the thousands. Out of the crucible of the camps, a uniquely American Buddhism was born.

By Duncan Ryuken Williams

Spring 2019

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

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The Dharmic Life

The Buddha’s journey from upper-class royalty to no-class enlightenment had enough twists and turns to fill a saga. Each stage of his life contains lessons on freeing ourselves from suffering applicable to our own lives here and now.

Gesshin Greenwood

Mar 2019

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