Still Speaking
A vital link in the westward transmission of the dharma, Dwight Goddard’s A Buddhist Bible is about to be republished this spring by Beacon Press. Originally printed more than sixty years ago, it was the first…
Robert Aitken
Robert Aitken (1917-2010), a prominent Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani lineage, was cofounder of the Honolulu Diamond Sangha and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
No Barrier
NO BARRIER: Unlocking the Zen Koan Thomas ClearyBantam Books: New York, 1993.224 pp., $9.95 (paperback). THOMAS CLEARY is a genius, the blurb on the back cover of my page proofs announces, as if this were not…
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation
The Bodhisattva Vows
The Great Vows, known as the Bodhisattva Vows, probably originated in China around the sixth century and may have been derived from an earlier Sanskrit gatha (a four-line verse that sums up an aspect of the…
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation, Teachings And Texts
The Rectification of Names
“Dukkha is everywhere,” the Buddha said, by way of introducing his Four Noble Truths. “There is a cause of dukkha, there is liberation from it, and the way to this liberation is the Eightfold Path.” When…
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