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Master Sheng Yen has dedicated his life to spreading the teachings of Chan Buddhism in China and in the West. In this excerpt from his new autobiography, Footprints in the Snow, Master Sheng Yen tells the story of his arrival in New York and how he learned to live without a home. AFTER I RESIGNED […]
By Master Sheng-Yen
On a trip to Kuan-yin’s sacred island, Sandy Boucher finds the Bodhisattva of Compassion not among the tourist-thronged monuments but within herself.
By Sandy BoucherThe Buddhas of Bamiyan
By Rob SchultheisThe Buddha predicted that his birthplace would become one of four places that “men of belief” would visit, but today, modern-day politics grow amidst the ruins and faster than new monasteries.
By Seth CastlemanHermann Hesse’s Journey to the East
By Paul W. MorrisKhunu Rinpoche Tendzin Gyaltsen has been called a bodhisattva and saint by those who knew him. His knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism was so superior that he came to be accepted by lamas of different schools as one of the greatest Tibetan lamas of his time. Yet he was not ethnically Tibetan and was known as […]
By Gene SmithReflections on the Life of Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
By David ChadwickGita Mehta considers the ancient Buddhist king in the context of a nuclear-armed India and finds his legacy never more relevant.
By Gita Mehta
“Mother of the Buddha”
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