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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Private: Pointy Rhinestone Glasses
Looking at Thailand
Accidents & Calculations
The emergence of three AIDS hospices
Notebooks from Lhasa
Photos by Robert Rauscenberg
Anti-abortion/Pro-choice
Taking both sides
An Interview with Jerry Garcia
The legendary musician speaks about practice, performance, Dead Heads, and consciousness.
Freud and Dr. Buddha
Mark Epstein on the search for selflessness
Arizona Killing Fields
Monks from the East meet death in the West
Invisible Realities
An interview with His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on nonself, suffering, and obstacles to the Buddhist path
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Into Emptiness
A mother's death
The Trials of Dandaron
Buddhist perseverance in Russia
Departments
The Lion-Dog of Buddhist Asia
How the imagery of mythic lions and pet dogs in Asian art spontaneously interbred to produce a fabulous litter of hybrid creatures of all shapes and sizes
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
Hongzhi called for a meditation completely free of grasping, that is, a meditation of "knowing without touching things," a technique perfected only as one finds inward illumination and body and mind drop away.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Food
Ten Thousand Cups of Tea
A pleasure and a practice
In the News Spring 1992
When Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Noble Peace Prize, a mass grave of Buddhist monks is discovered in Mongolia, and more in Buddhist news
IdeasMagazine | On Translation
When the Buddha Bowed Out
What did the Buddha mean by "no-self"?
Duane Michals
Photographer Duane Michals lives in New York; his books include Now Becoming Then (Twelvetrees Press).
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Rolling the Wheel
This episode of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha, as retold by Nikkyo Niwano, starts in Bodh-gaya following the Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. The decision to turn the dharma wheel initiates a teaching mission that…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Heart Sutra
Translations and commentary by Buddhist teachers
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Spring 1992
"Not staking a claim of being a Buddhist but rather simply being a Buddha-Dharma sympathizer," and more
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Private: Pointy Rhinestone Glasses
Looking at Thailand
Sailing to Fusang
Did a Buddhist monk "discover" the New World?
Letters to the Editor Spring 1992
From our readers
The Formless Field of Benefaction
A letter from the editor
New and Noteworthy Texts In Translation
A roundup of new reading
Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery
Kenneth G. Zysk strives to uncover the roots of ayurvedic, or traditional Indian, medicine, in the observations, practice, and collaboration of groups of wandering healers.
New Mahayana: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World
"New Mahayana" is likely to surprise Western readers accustomed to the measured tones and impeccable scholarship of D. T. Suzuki or to the nonpolemical expression of realization found in koan collections.
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
“Fear is not the state of civilized man.”
Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry
The first anthology to bring together a broad range of Buddhist poets
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
Essays and comments by scholars from around the world examining one hundred-sixty works of Tibetan sacred art
