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CultureMagazine | Special Section
Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames
I “Tell me my name,” I asked Sifu, as ashes turn the City of Angels blue. Said he: “Wait until Gautama’s birthday.” Tip by singed fingertip, the ends of orange punk sticks tinge the burning…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Positive Disintegration
An interview with Joanna Macy
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Great Conversion
Dr. Ambedkar and Buddhist Revival in India
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Working With Compassion
The Evolution of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
An Avalanche in L.A.
Actor Michael O’Keefe reflects on the Los Angeles riots, exploring compassion, race, and the complexities of social unrest.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Rocky Flats
Warring God Charnel Ground
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meditation In Action
The Emergence of Engaged Buddhism
Features
Swatting Flies at Exeter
In 1981 the late Zen teacher Maurine Stuart started a sitting group at Phillips Exeter Academy, the exclusive New Hampshire boarding school renowned for its academic excellence. The meetings were originally held in the wrestling room.…
Like a Dream
Poetry in Buddhist India
The Dharma of Liberation
An Interview with Sharon Salzberg
The Masked Lama Dances of Lo
In his book The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen chronicled his journey to the Tibetan kingdom of Dolpo in northwest Nepal. At that time, he learned of the even more inaccessible Kingdom of Lo, which dates back…
Departments
The Mushroom Monk: Nyogen Senzaki
“THE LAND OF THE WHITE BARBARIANS is beneath the dignity of a Zen master,” argued Soyen Shaku’s monks when Soyen was invited to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. But the Japanese abbot…
Letters to the Editor Spring 1993
DOCTORS AND DEATH I am writing in response to the special section on euthanasia (Winter Issue). I write from the perspective of a physician as well as a Buddhist practitioner. There seems a tenor to the…
Books In Brief: Spring 1993
ZEN WORD, ZEN CALLIGRAPHY Text by Eido Tai Shimano Calligraphy by Kogetsu Tani Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1992. 160 pp., $50.00 (clothbound). THE ZENGO OR ZEN WORDS and phrases in Kogetsu Tani’s calligraphy cut right to…
Television
Reports from the Interior
Media Watch
UNPRECEDENTED GAULSkeptics and naysayers had a field day when French Vogue announced that the Dalai Lama would be the guest editor of the Christmas issue. But the magazine, which has just hit the stands stateside (complete…
IdeasMagazine | On Translation
What’s in a Name?
SO MANY DIFFERENT NAMES exist for the Buddha that one might, in the course of perusing ancient texts or contemporary literature, easily assume that Gotama and Gautama and Shakyamuni and Siddhartha were the best of friends…
Roshi Meets Rhino
Zen and the Art of Transmission
The Zen Monastic Experience
Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea
No Nature
New and Selected Poems
White Sail
Crossing the Waves of Ocean Mind to the Serene Continent of the Triple Gem
The Way
An Ecological World-View
Consciousness Explained
CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED Daniel C. DennettLittle, Brown & Co: Boston, 1991.511 pp., $14.95 (paperback). “CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED” resounds with a sensationalistic, promising ring, something like “The Pyramids Deciphered” or “Madonna Unveiled.” The latter subject has, of course, generously…
The Republic of Tea
Letters to a Young Zentrepreneur
Liquid Life
Abortion and Buddhism in Japan
Rational Zen
The Mind of Dogen Zenji
After Apathy
YOGEN SENZAKl (see “Ancestors“), the first Zen teacher to take up residence in America, taught Zen at a time when there was almost no interest in it. And the challenge of forging a compatible marriage between…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
Re: Eating Meat
Jon PendletonReston, VirginiaAssistant Bookstore Manager “I don’t eat red meat, but I do eat chicken and seafood. I don’t believe in eating…
A Giant Act of Love
Reflections on the First Precept
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Austerities of the Bodhisattva
Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Dharma Door of Nonduality
From the Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra