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 Tisdale

Summer 2018

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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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Sutta Study: Ill

In the Gilana Sutta, the Buddha offers a potent teaching on impermanence to an ailing and distressed monk.

By Peter Doobinin

Apr 17, 2019

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The Buddhist Review

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History & Philosophy

Thus Have I Heard: An American Sutra

With the outbreak of World War II, Japanese Americans were incarcerated by the thousands. Out of the crucible of the camps, a uniquely American Buddhism was born.

By Duncan Ryuken Williams

Spring 2019

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The Dharmic Life

The Buddha’s journey from upper-class royalty to no-class enlightenment had enough twists and turns to fill a saga. Each stage of his life contains lessons on freeing ourselves from suffering applicable to our own lives here and now.

Gesshin Greenwood

Mar 2019

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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