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What’s in a Word? Nirvana

Our expert explains the etymology of nirvana.

By Andrew Olendzki

Spring 2019

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What’s in a Word? Emptiness

Our expert explains the etymology of emptiness.

By Andrew Olendzki

Winter 2018

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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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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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