Magazine Society & Environment

A Vision of What Could Be

An African American professor of Buddhism looks at race, class, and American dharma.

By Jan Willis | Artwork by Betye Saar

Spring 2020

Magazine

On Conferences: A New Spirit at Spirit Rock

A gathering of African-American buddhists.

By Jan Willis

Winter 2002

Magazine Personal Reflections

Freedom: Guns or Dharma

Jan Willis’s critical choice: join with the Black Panthers in an armed fight for freedom, or return to Nepal to study the dharma. This was the decision she faced upon graduating from Cornell University in 1969. I had already made up my mind to return to Nepal after leaving Cornell when I picked up a […]

By Jan Willis

Winter 2000