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New Age Orientalism: The Case of Tibet
Tibetan Buddhism has been portrayed as the most corrupt deviation of the Buddha's teaching, and as its most direct descendant. Lopez takes another look at our romance with Tibet.
Footsteps in the Snow
The Life Story and Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Hard Travel to Sacred Places: Bangkok
This is the first of two excerpts adapted from a book of the same name, to be published in the fall by Shambhala Publications. The first installment features extracts of a travel journal written in Thailand;…
Zen in the Balance: Can It Survive America?
We must ask ourselves if the Americanization of Zen now under way is a necessary cultural adaptation or a justification for the co-optation of Zen by secular materialists.
Hell First, Then Heaven and Earth
An Interview With Oliver Stone
Departments
Opening the Hand of Thought
Approach to Zen
Wherever You Go There You Are
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf
Zen Poems of Ryokan
Willy-Nilly Dharma
In Oliver Stone’s new movie Heaven and Earth, Buddhism plays a major role in a Hollywood movie for the first time. (See interview with Oliver Stone in this issue.) Earlier, What’s Love Got to Do with It…
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up: Episode Four
The fourth excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
MeditationMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean To You? Spring 1994
Re: Daily Practice
Still Speaking
A vital link in the westward transmission of the dharma, Dwight Goddard’s A Buddhist Bible is about to be republished this spring by Beacon Press. Originally printed more than sixty years ago, it was the first…
Letters to the Editor Spring 1994
It takes a while for a new magazine to find its voice. How sad that Tricycle‘s is maturing with the rasp of a feminist tract.George Fradin Ann Arbor, Michigan Too much politics!—referring to the Winter 1993…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Crawling Towards Sitting
A Few Notes on the Endless Quest for Meditation Posture
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Breathing
What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. When we practice zazen our mind always follows our breathing. When we inhale, the air comes into the…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Principles of Zazen
A Zen master on the universal guidelines for zazen, or sitting meditation.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Snaggletoothed Barbarian
With dharma discourse from Bodhidharma
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
How to Sit
10 tips for sitting during meditation
Outrageous Betrayal
The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile
In the News Spring 1994
Four Monks Arrested in Vietnam Following the largest Vietnamese public protest since the Vietnam War, four Buddhist monks were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of three and four years by the Vietnamese government on November…
The Awakened One
A Life of the Buddha
Unlikely Finds
Looking for Spiritual Value in Modern Art
Wake Up and Roar
Satsang with H.W.L. PoonjaVolume 1Pacific Center Press: Maui, 1992.171 pp., $12.00 (paper).Wake Up and RoarSatsang with H.W.L. PoonjaVolume 2Pacific Center Press: Maui, 1993.175 pp., $12.00 (paper). Once, in the midst of a particularly poignant time in…
Learning True Love
How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam
The Flower Ornament Scripture
A Translation of The Avatamsaka Sutra
How to Cook a Macrobiotic Meal in a Hotel Room
Drawings by Lois Long You carry a small portable rice cooker and an immersion heater, various plugs, extension cords, and converters for foreign exchange in your luggage. It is extremely important to be knowledgeable about the…
Transforming Problems into Happiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche.Edited by Ailsa Cameron and Robina Courtin.Wisdom Publications: Boston, 1993.88 pp., $10.00 (paper). Nobody likes to suffer, and that’s probably why those with physical pains, mental problems, and spiritual crises are the target market…
The Healing Path
A Soul Approach to Illness
