Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Circling Emptiness
Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.
Lawrence Shainberg
Lawrence Shainberg is an author and novelist whose books include the celebrated Zen memoir Ambivalent Zen and Memories of Amnesia. His Pushcart Prize-winning monograph of conversations with Samuel Beckett was first published in The Paris Review in 1987.
Yasutani Roshi: The Hardest Koan
Brian Victoria uncovers the wartime anti-Semitism of one of America’s most seminal Zen masters. Responses to this material from: Robert Aitken, Bernie Glassman, Bodhin Kjolhede, and Lawrence Shainberg
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