Ancestors

Return to Your Original State!

Teachers of Zen have a favorite saying, “Return to your original state!” To return to the original state means, in a word, “Go back home!” “Original state” signifies “original state of mind.” What is this original…

By Sokei-An Shigetsu Sasaki

Summer 1997

CultureMagazine | Ancestors

The Hermit Who Owned His Mountain

A Profile of W.Y. Evans Wentz

By David Guy

Spring 1997

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors

Keep Sweeping

A Ch'an Life in Rural Tennessee

By Michael Sierchio

Winter 1996

Ceylonese postage stamp in 1967 to commemorate Olcott's contributions to the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival. Courtesy of S. Prothero.

IdeasMagazine | Ancestors

The White Buddhist

Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival

By Stephen Prothero

Fall 1996

IdeasMagazine | Ancestors

They Teach the Buddhist Faith

On September 1, 1899, Dr. Shuye Sonoda and Rev. Kakuryo Nishijima, the first two missionaries of the Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) Sect of Japanese Buddhism to be sent to North America, arrived in San Francisco at…

By Tricycle

Summer 1996

IdeasMagazine | Ancestors

The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky

The famed psychic, mystic, and founder of Theosophy

By David Guy

Spring 1996

CultureMagazine | Ancestors

Letter to the Schools of the Buddha

On April 15, 1925, the French founder of the Theatre of the Absurd, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) published his “Letter to the Schools of the Buddha” in the third issue of La Revolution Surrealiste. In the same…

By Antonin Artaud

Winter 1995

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors

Alexandra David-Néel

Alexandra David-Néel lived 100 years. She was born in France in 1868, the period of la belle epoque, and died there in 1969, soon after the student riots in Paris. In between she spent fourteen years…

By David Guy

Fall 1995

IdeasMagazine | Ancestors

The Religion of Science

Paul Carus and the "Gospel of Buddha"

By Robert Sharf

Summer 1995

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Return to Your Original State!

The Hermit Who Owned His Mountain

Keep Sweeping

The White Buddhist

They Teach the Buddhist Faith

The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky

Letter to the Schools of the Buddha

Alexandra David-Néel

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