
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder lives in the northern Sierra Nevada and Practices in the Linji Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist tradition. Pulitzer prize-winning poet and essayist, his books include Turtle Island, Practice of the Wild, and Mountains and Rivers Without End, among others.
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A poem from Gary Synder's Turtle Island

Smokey the Bear Sutra
As the fires blaze on, we revisit a conservationist classic.

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Hai-en Temple South Korea Home of the Total Tripitaka Set of Printing Blocks
Parting words from Gary Snyder
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Nothing Need Be Done
A 1988 interview with Gary Snyder, from the newly published anthology Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places

Parting Words Summer 2014
Parting words from Gary Snyder (and Cold Mountain)

Buddhist Anarchism
Earlier today I came across a link to the following essay on the Facebook page of Buddhist Global Relief. Written by Gary Snyder in 1961, it is a very interesting read and, as CDDC explains, “it…

The Fog of World War II
Setting the Record Straight on D.T. Suzuki

Housecleaning in Kyoto
A poem by Gary Snyder

MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji
Shokoku Temple is in Northern Kyoto, on level ground, with a Christian college just south of it and many blocks of crowded little houses and stone-edged dirt roads north. It is the mother-temple of many branch…

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