Interview

You Are What You Read

As the dharma is made relatable to modern Western culture, do Buddhism’s foundational texts risk becoming obsolete?

By Gabriel Lefferts

Fall 2018

Travel Guide to the End of Life

An interview with Sallie Tisdale, death and dying educator

By Sallie Jiko Tisdale

Summer 2018

Grey and metallic sculpture of a robot in a meditation posture with many mechanical arms surrounding its body, artificial intelligence buddhism

Magazine Society & Environment

AI, Karma & Our Robot Future

Two artificial intelligence scientists discuss what’s to come.

A conversation with Steve Omohundro and Nikki Mirghafori

Spring 2018

What Went Wrong

An interview with Tibetan psychologist Lobsang Rapgay about student-teacher relationships that turn abusive

By Emma Varvaloucas

Winter 2017

bodhi college teachers Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, and Akincano M. Weber

Understand, Realize, Give Up, Develop

Three contemporary Buddhist teachers discuss their take on what’s traditionally known as “the four noble truths”: why they believe the term has been mistranslated and the concepts behind it misunderstood.

A conversation with Stephen Batchelor, Christina Feldman, and Akincano M. Weber

Fall 2017

Dr. Karma Phuntsho in the local temple of his home village, Ura, Bhutan

Magazine

Bhutan on the Brink

An interview with Dr. Karma Phuntsho, the first Bhutanese to earn a doctorate at Oxford who now works to promote social entrepreneurship among the nation’s youth.

By Emma Varvaloucas, Photographs by Matthieu Ricard

Spring 2017

MagazineSociety & Environment

The Best Remedy

The Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita’s last advice for attaining peace in our inner and outer worlds

By Alan Clements

Winter 2016

lama chopel at the temple he build in hungary

Magazine

A Lama in Hungary

Douglas Penick interviews Lama Chopel.

By Douglas Penick, Photography by Tamas Szemann

Fall 2016

Venerable Chwasan, former head dharma master in won buddhism

Magazine

The Grace in This World

An interview with Venerable Chwasan, former head dharma master of the Won Buddhist Order

By Emma Varvaloucas, Photography by Jean Chung

Summer 2016

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Aging Is Reality

Although I studied Buddhism as a young man, it wasn’t until I reached the later years of my life that I truly understood the Buddha’s first encounters with old age, sickness, and death.

By Lewis Richmond

Oct 21, 2021

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Stepping Back onto the Silk Road

An ambitious retrospective lets us view China’s ancient network of Buddhist caves at Dunhuang through the lenses of pioneering photographers James and Lucy Lo.

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When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism

Poet, translator, and Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer shares lessons from his decades of practice: from relationships, to emptiness, to activism, to cultural encounters between East and West.

Norman Fischer

Oct 2021

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Interview

Magazine History & Philosophy

You Are What You Read

Magazine Body & Mind

Travel Guide to the End of Life

Magazine Society & Environment

AI, Karma & Our Robot Future

Magazine

What Went Wrong

Magazine

Understand, Realize, Give Up, Develop

Magazine

Bhutan on the Brink

MagazineSociety & Environment

The Best Remedy

Magazine

A Lama in Hungary

Magazine

The Grace in This World