In Transition

Rick Fields

84,000 84,000 Gates to the Dharma And mine is best. What a waste! Do your practice. Enjoy your life And let the world Argue and discuss itself To death. —Rick Fields, 9/13/98 Rick Fields was fifty-seven…

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 1999

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Houn Jiyu-Kennet Roshi

January 1, 1924—November 6, 1996

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Spring 1997

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The Death of a Philosopher

Timothy Leary died on May 31, 1996. Timothy Leary died as he lived, in public. After announcing that he had inoperable prostate cancer, he held court at his Beverly Hills home, was feted at the Hog…

By Rick Fields

Fall 1996

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Lex Hixon

The awakened mind has never come into being and so cannot disappear or be destroyed, nor can it be analyzed into component parts, nor described or manipulated in any way. The mind itself, abiding calmly as…

By Tricycle

Spring 1996

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Remembering Maezumi Roshi

A Tribute by Muryo Sensei for Tetsugen Roshi

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Fall 1995

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On the Passing of Buddhadasa

Perhaps the best-known and most controversial Thai monk in the contemporary Theravada tradition

By Sulak Sivaraksa

Winter 1993

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche

Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was recognized as an incarnation of the previous Jamgon Kongtrul of the Kagyu lineage.

By Tricycle

Fall 1992

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

In Memory of Mary Farkas

Remembering the director of the First Zen Institute of America

By Tricycle

Fall 1992

ObituariesMagazine | In Transition

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)

By Tricycle

Winter 1991

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