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…

A Tribute by Muryo Sensei for Tetsugen Roshi

THE VENERABLE Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, who passed away at the age of eighty-seven on July 8, 1993, was perhaps the best-known and most controversial Thai monk in the contemporary Theravada tradition. Although adhering strictly to the conservative…

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

Mary Farkas (1911-1992) Mary Farkas, director of the First Zen Institute of America, died on June 7th in New York City. She was eighty-one years old and her long life embodied the transmission of Zen from…

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)