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Sitting Around
The practice of sitting goes wherever you go
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Mind is Shapely, Art is Shapely
GARY SNYDER asked his teacher Oda Sesso Roshi, “Sometimes I write poetry, is that all right?” Oda laughed and said, “It’s all right as long as it comes out of your true self.” He also said,…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Emptying the Bell
An Interview with Peter Matthiessen
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Conversions
In Praise of Buddhist Art
Features
No Right, No Wrong
An interview with Pema Chödrön
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Ringworm
IT’S BEEN TWO YEARS since I left Pingyan Monastery, but every time my head itches I still think it’s that ringworm. It was the blind cat’s fault, or mine for getting distracted and feeding her and…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Street Zen
The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Warrior Mind
TWENTY YEARS AGO, I didn’t worry about my physical safety. I hitchhiked, camped out, walked alone at night, with a young person’s imprudence. This unconcern gave way inexorably, first to a growing caution, and then to…
Awakening with Prozac
Pharmaceuticals and Practice
Departments
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up: Episode Two
The second excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Anonymous Was a Woman—Again
IN THE WINTER 1992 issue of Tricycle, I reaffirmed one of the most cherished claims of American Buddhism. The first known translation from a Buddhist sutra into English, I wrote, was “The Preaching of Buddha,” an…
Percolation / the Shadow
Poetry by Jane HirshfieldCalligraphy by Michele Laporte “Percolation” first appeared in Yellow Silk and “The Shadow” first appeared in ZYZZYVA. Both will be included in The October Palace by Jane Hirshfield, forthcoming from Harper…
Letters to the Editor Fall 1993
Too Liberal Several issues ago Professor Robert Thurman outlined his view of Buddhist politics in “The Politics of Enlightenment” (Vol. II, No.1), which was a clear example of what I perceive to be a bias in…
Inside and Outside the Scriptures
BODHIDHARMA, that hairy sixth-century Indian teacher with the fierce stare and grumpy scowl, traveled from India to China, where he sat in meditation for so many years in a row that he became known as the…
Birds of Paradox
THE LATE KARMAPA loved birds. Westerners called the regal guru “the St. Francis of Tibet,” for he was often seen at his monastery in Bhutan with birds perched on his shoulders or eating from his hand.…
The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism
THE WHEEL OF TIME SAND MANDALA: Visual Scripture of Tibetan Buddhism Barry BryantHarperSanFrancisco: San Francisco, 1993.256 pp., $35.00 (hardback). Deborah Sommer TIBETAN SAND MANDALAS from the roof of the world have weathered the descent into the…
Three Zen Masters: Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan
THREE ZEN MASTERS: Ikkyu, Hakuin, and RyokanJohn StevensKodansha International: New York, 1993.161 pp., $10.00 (paperback). Richard Jaffe IF ALL THE JAPANESE BOOKS, both popular and scholarly, devoted to Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan were collected in one…
Dharma Center Profile
Dharma in Dixie
The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava
THE LOTUS-BORN: The Life Story of PadmasambhavaComposed by Yeshe Tsogyal Revealed by Nyang Ral Nyima Oser and Clarification of the Life of Padmasambhava by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol Translated from the Tibetan by Erik Pema KunsangEdited by…
In the News Fall 1993
PATH TO PEACE On May 4, more than four hundred Buddhist monks, nuns, and laypeopie left Angkor Wat in the first steps of a 350-kilometer, cross-country peace walk through the wartorn provinces of Siem Reap, Kompong…
The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones: The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action
THE HEART TREASURE OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES: The Practice of View, Meditation, and ActionPatrul Rinpoche Commentary by Dilgo Khyentse Translated by The Padmakara Translation Group Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1992.260 pp., $15.00 (paperback). Barbara Stewart There’s no…
Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits
ROAD TO HEAVEN: Encounters with Chinese Hermits Bill PorterMercury House: San Francisco, 1993. 256 pp., $14.00 (paperback). Jeffrey Zaleski RINGING PHONES. Crying babies. Noisy neighbors. Car alarms. It’s the rare lay practitioner who hasn’t been yanked…
Mind/Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health
MIND/BODY MEDICINE: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., and Joel GurinConsumer Reports Books: New York, 1993.482 pp., $24.95 (hardback). Barbara Graham THE DIRECT LINK between mind and body won’t surprise anyone…
Kun-zang La-may Zhal-lung, Part Two and Part Three
KUN-ZANG LA-MAY ZHAL-LUNG, Part Two and Part Three Translated and edited by Sonnam T. KaziDiamond-Lotus Publishing: Upper Montclair NJ, 1993.352 pp., $50.00 (hardback). Herbert Guenther OCCASIONALLY out of the multitude of books purporting to be translations…
Human Minds: An Exploration
HUMAN MINDS: An ExplorationMargaret DonaldsonAllen Lane: The Penguin Press, a division of Viking Penguin: New York, 1992.314 pp., $25.00 (hardback). Eleanor Rosch SITUATED WITHIN one of the branches of Western psychology that strives to be a…
Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
ENCOURAGING WORDS: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western StudentsRobert Aitken Pantheon: New York, 1993. 231 pp., $23.00 (hardback). Sam Hamill ALTHOUGH the introduction of Zen Buddhism in Western culture begins with the appearance of Soyen Shaku at…
Books in Brief
WHAT THE BUDDHA TAUGHTWalpola RahulaGrove Press: New York, 1974 In this reliable and insightful introduction to the teachings of the historical Buddha, Dr. Rahula provides general answers to questions pertinent to Westerners. In addition to addressing…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Real Buddha
Ninth-century master Huang Po represents the full-flowering of Ch’ an (Zen) Buddhism in China. A proponent of the “sudden” approach to enlightenment, he was profoundly concerned with the notion of transmitting the dharma from master to…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
Re: When you speak of letting go of the ego, what is this “ego” that you are talking about letting go of?
Eight Buddhist teachers respond
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Attention Means Attention
Zen master Charlotte Joko Beck on paying attention
Columns
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