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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
Prisoner, lama, and “neo-Buddhist” heir to a Russian dharma king
By Douglas Penick
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
A Vanished Buddhist King
By Douglas Penick
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
Living on amid the destruction of everything we ever knew
By Douglas Penick
Douglas Penick interviews Lama Chopel.
By Douglas Penick, Photography by Tamas Szemann
Encounters on the path
By Douglas Penick, Photography by Hans Georg Berger
Encounters with death
By Douglas Penick, Photography by Walter Schels
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