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TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Renunciation
Like a raven in the wind
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Confessions of a Buddhist Political Junkie
Who was this monk, and why did I trust him so completely?
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Born in Tibet
A lasting friendship
Inside Out
The Dalai Lama interviewed by Spalding Gray
The International Year of Tibet
Introduction and event list
Features
Authority and Exploitation
Three voices
Just One Breath
The practice of poetry and meditation
Memento Mori
Notes on Buddhism and AIDS
Jataka Mind
Cross-species compassion from ancient India to Earth First! activists
Departments
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
"From time to time I was afraid. This is the fault of a false view of life."
Jewels of the Doctrine: Stories of the Saddharma Ratnavaliya
For centuries, the Jewels of the Doctrine has been a popular medium for the transmission of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
A Thousand Lives Away: Buddhism in Contemporary Burma
King's examination of the tensions between popular cosmology and that of the "purer" Buddhism offers instructive insights into the flexibility of Buddhism.
Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex
Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex By John Stevens. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1990, 188 pp., paper, $9.95. A lot of eyebrows were raised thirty years ago when the poet Kenneth Rexroth wrote, “Erotic love is the highest…
Book of Serenity / The Gateless Barrier
Book of Serenity Translated by Thomas Cleary. Lindisfarne Press: Hudson, NY 1990, 463 pp., $18.95. The Gateless Barrier Translated and with a commentary by Robert Aitken. North Point Press: Berkeley, CA, 1990, 332 pp., $14.95. The…
The Secret Pilgrim
The Secret Pilgrim By John le Carré. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1991, 336 pp., $21.95. I have long been an admirer of le Carré, yet I was unprepared for his latest book, The Secret Pilgrim.…
Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels and Reformers
Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels and Reformers By Perle Besserman and Manfred Steger. Shambhala Publications, Inc: Boston, 1991, 240 pp., paper, $12.95. Perle Besserman and Manfred Steger have put together a most entertaining and lively collection of…
House of the Turquoise Roof
House of the Turquoise Roof By Dorje Yudon Yuthok, edited by Michael Harlin. Snow Lion Publications, Inc.: Ithaca, 1990, 330 pp., paper, $14.95. This autobiography of a Tibetan noblewoman describes, in exhaustive detail, life in her homeland…
Reel to Real
An Interview with Bruce Joel Rubin
“Gen Sun Tzu at the Allied Front,” “Selling Samsara,” and “Eat a Cookie, Save a Tree.”
Gen Sun Tzu at the Allied Front A Chinese text on military strategy written 2,500 years ago for the Chinese kingdom of Wu is now an indispensable element of U.S. Marine Corps modern warfare. The Corps’ commandant,…
Cilantro Days
I have always loved the dance of cleaning the kitchen, washing the vegetables, cutting, cooking, cleaning again. My culinary career began when I apprenticed with a Swiss chef at age seventeen. Cooking was art, it was…
The Hot Hand Sutra
Two years ago, while researching an article on sports, I came upon a conundrum that resisted any attempt to confine it to the language of the conventional sports page. It concerns a cherished gospel of the…
Wiley Mind
Listening to the radio I hear .. Coyote Roshi a known collector of.. wooden buddhas received a letter from a student of Bhag Wan Shree Rahjneesh saying .. “You collect wooden buddhas .. why not come…
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
The Zen of Paul Reps
When Paul Reps was asked what kind of Zen he practiced, he answered: “Reps Zen.” This poet-painter-philosopher who died last year at the age of ninety-six not only followed his own Zen but influenced generations of…
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Opening the Door…
and letting the ladies in
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Fall 1991
DOC O’CONNOR Office Manager, LaGrange, Ohio “Long pilgrimages to Asia. I’m just back from five months in India and Nepal with a more balanced foundation for dealing with my own chaotic American culture.” FATHER ALLEN BREAUX…
Mike’s Cartoon
The Original Ray
The United States produced its fair share of cranky religious characters throughout the 19th century, but the self-named Philangi Dasa was surely one of the most original. In 1887 he published The Buddhist Ray, the first Buddhist journal…
At the Crossroad
In 1989 the Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize for being the only contemporary leader of a displaced people to disavow the use of arms to regain control of his country. This past March he…
MeditationMagazine | In Transition
Minding the Storehouse
Although most of us are intimately identified with the contents and functions of our minds, we never make the attempt to actually see what goes on there. If we did, we might see what the Buddha saw…
Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening
Hidden Journey: A Spiritual Awakening by Andrew Harvey. Henry Holt: New York, 1991, 253 pp., $22.50. Andrew Harvey has a gift for spiritual experiencea—an openness and attunement to the surprising manifestations of the Divine in the…