Remembering R. H. Blyth
Reginald Horace Blyth was born near London in 1898, the only child of working-class parents. By the start of World War I, he was eighteen and already an eccentric in his contemporaries’ eyes: he ate no…
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.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Roundtable: Help or Hindrance
Whether or not psychedelics have any usefulness to someone on a Buddhist path was the subject of four recent interviews, conducted by Allan Hunt Badiner and combined into the following roundtable discussion. Robert Aitken Roshi of Hawaii is…
Still Speaking
Dwight Goddard wrote the first English-language anthology of Buddhist teachings in 1932.
No Barrier
Thomas Cleary's new book shines a light on Chinese koan translations.
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
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Authority and Exploitation
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