Douglas Penick

Douglas Penick is a lifelong Buddhist practitioner and has published two novels and three Gesar of Ling episodes, as well as many shorter works and performance pieces. Arrowsmith Press has just published his book of memoir essays about ecological collapse, The Age of Waiting.

Magazine Arts & Culture

Singing the Void

The yearning, poetry, and love of three masters

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2021

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Divine Messenger

As he reflects on the aging self, writer Douglas Penick comes to appreciate uncertainty and the slipperiness of memory.

By Douglas Penick

Jan 22, 2021

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

My Phone Call With Mortality

Reflections on cancer diagnosis, fear, and gratitude

By Douglas Penick

Dec 07, 2020

Magazine Arts & Culture

To Music

Reflections on the sounds of an interdependent world

By Douglas Penick

Summer 2020

Magazine

On The Departure of A Beloved Brother

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

By Douglas Penick

Winter 2019

Magazine

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

Magazine Personal Reflections

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

Trike Daily

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

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Chanting in the Time of COVID-19

Rinzai monk Kanho Yakushiji—who once went viral with his rendition of the Heart Sutra—has no problem combining music and monastic life.

Interview with Kanho Yakushiji by Koshin Paley Ellison

May 12, 2021

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The Buddhist Review

A Matter of Life and Death

Thoughts on a classic text about dying and duality from a late Zen teacher

Adapted from a talk by Sojun Mel Weitsman, edited by Hozan Alan Senauke

Summer 2021

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In It Together: Kindness through Crisis

After more than a year of social distancing, many of us continue to struggle in our day-to-day routines. Be it loneliness, grief, impatience, or frustration with family or roommates, Kimberly Brown encourages us to greet all our feelings with a kind and an open-hearted embrace.

Kimberly Brown

May 2021

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