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Buddhism Beat & Square
One afternoon in 1953, a young poet named Allen Ginsberg visited the First Zen Institute which was then still housed in an elegant private uptown apartment in New York City. Ginsberg occupied himself by perusing the…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
The Rucksack Revolution
Following the success of On the Road, Jack Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums in 1957. The novel, which predicted the “great rucksack revolution” of the 1960s, relates the wanderings of Ray Smith (Kerouac), often in the…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Spontaneous Intelligence
Interview with Allen Ginsberg
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Reading Back
I kept a journal when I went to Japan in January of 1960 to join my husband-to-be, a Beat poet and student of Rinzai Zen living in Kyoto. I continued keeping a journal during the four…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Buddhism & the Beat Generation
“The empty blue sky of space says ‘All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I dont care, it still belongs to me’—The blue sky adds ‘Dont…
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Buddha’s Robe
I am sewing my first rakusu—the rectangular bib-like garment that is worn by Zen Buddhists. It is formally conferred during jukai, the ceremony of taking refuge in the Buddha and receiving the precepts. Unlike many people…
Visible & Invisible
Jan Nattier on the politics of representation in Buddhist America
Global View
A Conversation with the Dalai Lama
Departments
MeditationMagazine | How We Live
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Fall 1995
re: Personal Altars
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America
A review of Tony Schwartz's 1995 book What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America.
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Enlightened Journey: Buddhist Practice as Daily Life
A Review by Kate Wheeler
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Posture
A guide to the seven-point posture
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Zen in the American Grain
Sarah Fremerman reviews Kyogen Carlson's book Zen in the American Grain
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Jerusalem Moonlight: An American Zen Teacher Walks the Path of His Ancestors
A Review by Eve Marko
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
Remembering Maezumi Roshi
A Tribute by Muryo Sensei for Tetsugen Roshi
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Thoughts on the East
A Review by Sam Hamill
In the News Fall 1995
Change Your Mind Change Your Mind (CYM), Tricycle’s second annual day of meditation in Central Park, opened with a surprising and auspicious event: a white heron flying above the grassy slopes of Mineral Springs Hill. Only…
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation
Nirvana
We all know what happens when a fire goes out. The flames die down and the fire is gone for good. So when we first learn that the name for the goal of Buddhist practice, nibbana…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Noticing Space
The spacious mind has room for everything
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Buddha-charita Part II
This installment is the second in a series of excerpts from The Buddha-charita or Life of Buddha, the first complete biography of Shakyamuni Buddha, written by the poet Ashvaghosha, probably in the first century C.E. The…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel lived 100 years. She was born in France in 1868, the period of la belle epoque, and died there in 1969, soon after the student riots in Paris. In between she spent fourteen years…
The First Noble Truth of Cyberspace
In a course I teach at MIT on democracy and the Internet, we were talking about the social impact of migrations in cyberspace (i.e., the capacity to move freely into networks and services that had previously…
IdeasMagazine | From The Academy
The H Word
In 1987, the Zen Buddhist Temple of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sponsored a conference on “World Buddhism in America.” The title was meant to convey the fact that representatives from various Buddhist traditions had gathered to talk…
Letters to the Editor Fall 1995
Is the Pope Catholic? In considering the disparaging views on Buddhism in the Pope’s recent book Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Donald Lopez identifies their source as “nineteenth-century missionary literature,” which reflects the assumptions of our “colonialist…
Kokopelli’s Sack
For the late-season gardener there is no escape from the great ripening of August. The hands of every gardener are stained tell-tale brown with the gummy residue of unruly Ailsa Craig tomato plants. Try as we…
Bombs and Baby Bears: Toys “R” Us
Sifting through the images of Oklahoma City for signs of continuity and renewal, the most poignant to emerge—the saddest and the most disturbing—is that of a city whose grief came to be symbolized by the sudden…
Dharma Doors
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha Translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu BodhiWisdom Publications: Boston (1995).1412 pp., $75.00 (cloth). This new translation offers the complete text of the Majjhima Nikaya, a collection of 152 suttas that are among…
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