Tea on the Dead Sea
Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907-1984) figured greatly in the transmission of Zen to the West. In the wild antics of this late teacher, Sean Murphy finds wisdom and a mischievous heart
Ancestors
Sanghamitta
Few disciples were as important as Sanghamitta in the early history of Buddhism. As a young nun, Sanghamitta fearlessly set sail from India to Sri Lanka, where she helped establish Theravada Buddhism.
The Bodhisattva of Rock Creek Cemetery
Henry Whitfield uncovers a unique piece of Buddhist Americana in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.
From Magician to Tibetan Saint
The life of Milarepa
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
An Anthropologist Monk: Colin M. Turnbull
In an essay found on Colin Turnbull's computer following his death from AIDS in 1994, this internationally known author of The Forest People writes of becoming a Tibetan monk—and of the qualities of Buddha-nature that he…
Christmas Humphreys
[Humphreys and his wife] ran the Buddhist Lodge from their flat . . . where they had made a hideaway with a bright fire, Persian rugs, incense, golden Buddhas, and a library of magical books which…
Nagarjuna’s Verses from the Center
Although Nagarjuna is arguably the most important figure in Buddhism after the Buddha himself, very little is known about him. All that can be said with any certainty is that he lived at some time around…
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…
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