Zen’s Unassuming Pioneer
How the “Great Simplicity” of D.T. Suzuki popularized Zen in America
Rick Fields
Rick Fields (1942–1999) was a contributing editor to Tricycle and the author of Chop Wood, Carry Water; The Code of the Warrior; (with Bernie Glassman) Instructions to the Cook; and the well-known history of American Buddhism, How the Swans Came to the Lake.
Who Is The Buddha?
The life story of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama
In the Pure Land
Books by D.T. Suzuki, Taitetsu Unno, and Kenneth K. Tanaka
CultureMagazine | Special Section
From Fuck You, Cancer and Other Poems
"Primordial fury / Atoms of anger"
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
In Light Of Death
An interview with Rick Fields on living with cancer
Discipline of Freedom
Discipline of Freedom The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali Translated from the Sanskrit by Barbara Stoler Miller University of California Press, 1996. 114 pp., $17.95 (cloth) Yoga and Buddha are probably the two best-known and most-used…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Who was Buddha?
Siddhartha Gautama was born around 567 B.C.E., in a small kingdom just below the Himalayan foothills. His father was a chief of the Shakya clan. It is said that twelve years before his birth the brahmins…
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
The Death of a Philosopher
"Why not? Why not? Why not?"
CultureMagazine | Special Section
A High History of Buddhism
The war on at least one drug—the psychedelic variety—has been won. In place of the alchemicals that reigned supreme for a momentarily eternal moment, young would-be mind explorers now toke their way through a fractled marketplace…
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