Mary Lou Kownacki

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Ryokan Revisited

New poetry by Benedictine nun, Mary Lou Kownacki echoes the koans of the nineteenth century Zen monk.

By Mary Lou Kownacki

Spring 2005

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For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

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Pilgrimage is often thought of as a transformative journey to a far away place with trials and tribulations along the way, but this doesn’t always have to be the case. Learn how Himalayan Buddhist ways of relating to sacred spaces can inform a sense of pilgrimage grounded in the routines of our everyday lives.

Lama Elizabeth Monson

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