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With the outbreak of World War II, Japanese Americans were incarcerated by the thousands. Out of the crucible of the camps, a uniquely American Buddhism was born.
By Duncan Ryuken Williams
A former soldier documents wartime Vietnam on an eccentric yogi’s Buddhist island.
By John Steinbeck IV
A Nichiren Buddhist artist invites us to reckon with the painful legacy of American slavery with openness and compassion.
By Emma Varvaloucas
A swim with Ram Dass is a dip into egolessness.
By Mark Epstein
Raised at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, the daughter of Western Zen pioneer Taizan Maezumi Roshi now makes her home in exotic field sites where she studies past ecosystems—and occasionally fishes a river.
Interview by Andrew Cooper
Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism's seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.
By Kenneth Tanaka, Illustrations by Andrew Archer
What does it look like to die well?
By Katy Butler
Deep practice mobilizes powerful healing energies—and stirs repressed forces that lie in our subconscious.
By Lawson Sachter, Sunya Kjolhede
A living legend among climbers, Dick Dorworth set a speed skiing record, fathered five sons by five women, and drowned his demons in alcohol. Then he found Zen.
By Emily Stifler Wolfe
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