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When a hospice counselor is called to the bedside of a child who has just died, he leads the parents through a Buddhist ritual for cleaning the body. In the process, he guides them through the fires of grief, which burn away everything but love.
By Frank Ostaseski
In a place where Buddhist roots don’t run deep, the Northwest Dharma Association is making efforts to build bridges across disparate Buddhist groups––some of which exist side-by-side yet remain unaware of each other.
By Steve Wilhelm
Chinese classics scholar David Hinton on the transformative power of landscape practice: wholly immersed in nature, we shed the cocoon of identity and separateness.
By Leath Tonino
In the search for diversity, have the meditation-centered traditions been asking the wrong questions? A Nichiren priest weighs in.
By Myokei Caine-Barrett, Photograph by Keliy Anderson-Staley
When Zen master Bernie Glassman suffers a debilitating stroke, he and his wife learn the ultimate lesson of not-knowing.
By Eve Marko, Photographs by Bob Miller
(But shouldn't)
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
New translations of ancient Indian verses
By Andrew Schelling
A writer comes to grips with her illusions about Tibet's capital city versus its reality.
Text and Photographs by Judith Hertog
A secular reimagining of the dharma may help us face political calamity.
By Stephen Batchelor
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