Douglas Penick

To Music

Reflections on the sounds of an interdependent world

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2020

On The Departure of A Beloved Brother

When we lose a loved one, we lose a part of ourselves

By Douglas Penick

Winter 2019

Going Everywhere While Staying Put

A centuries-old Korean fantasy novel is alive with Buddhist insight into space and time.

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2019

Papers flying in the blue sky, letters from max

Love Passing Beneath Shadows

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

By Douglas Penick

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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Living with Bears

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Aug 04, 2020

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Be a “See-It-All”

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Fall 2020

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Overcoming Difficult Emotions in a Chaotic World

The Buddha emphasized the need to cultivate an inner peace that is independent from external conditions. Bhante Buddharakkhita, who leads an emergent Theravada Buddhist community in his home country of Uganda, will guide us through mindfulness meditations for weathering the emotional storms of a turbulent world.

Bhante Buddharakkhita

Aug 2020

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