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TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Interview with Robert Jinsen Kennedy Roshi
Kennedy Roshi was ordained as a Catholic priest in Japan in 1965 and installed as a Zen teacher in 1991 and given the title Roshi in 1997 by Bernie Glassman Roshi. He is chair of the…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Glenn Mullin
A renowned Buddhist scholar explains the difference between Western and Buddhist prayer
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Interview with Dr. Larry Dossey
In Reinventing Medicine, (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999), Dr. Larry Dossey cites several scientific studies about the effectiveness of prayer. Medical evidence now supports the view that prayer helps in the healing process, and some studies have documented positive…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Sensei Pat Enkyo O’Hara
A Zen teacher sees prayer as a skillful means that helps us to pay homage to that which is larger than we.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Venerable Gareth Sparham
An author, translator, and Tibetan monk explicates the historical meanings and uses of prayer in Buddhism.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Prayer
A look at prayer for Buddhists in the West
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
A Tibetan master explains that using deities in prayer is a method intended to eliminate duality.
Features
The Psychology of Awakening
Conventional psychotherapists often look askance at spiritual practice, just as many spiritual teachers disapprove of psychotherapy. At the extremes, each camp tends to see the other as avoiding and denying the real issues.
Practical Advice Regarding Spiritual Teachers
When the spiritual seeker and the teacher come from different cultures, accommodations on both sides are required. But can guru devotion—essential to Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most problematic issues for Westerners—find its place in…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Thirteen Hours
After cancer surgery, was it the goddess Kwan Yin who came to alleviate suffering?
Swimming in the Infinite
Robert Thurman reflects on adapting Tibetan Buddhism for the West, the role of emptiness, karma, and why the dharma must evolve without losing its heart.
Moving Zen
Seido Karate in pictures and words
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Pilgrimage to Dong Shan
A search for the fountainhead of the Chinese Zen School
Departments
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Tell It Slant
Of all the seasons in the garden I love the dead of winter best. In icy February when storms from the Gulf of Alaska pelt the frozen ground with hail, the bare-boned skeleton of the dormant…
Books In Brief Spring 2000
NAGARJUNA’S“SEVENTY STANZAS”A Buddhist Psychology of EmptinessDavid Ross KomitoSnow Lion Publications, $16.95 According to legend, Nagarjuna, an Indian scholar in the second century C.E., was taken to the underwater kingdom of the nagas to read the Buddha’s…
View of an Auspicious Day
You shouldn’t chase after the pastor pin your hopes on the future.What is past is left behind.The future hasn’t yet…
The Cup
The CupDirected by Khyentse NorbuFineline Features94 minutes, Rated G Soccer, rather than the search for enlightenment, is the obsession among the sweet-faced young monks at the heart of The Cup, a new movie written and directed…
Bones of the Master
An excerpt from the forthcoming book and an interview with the authors
Videos in Brief
Spring 2000
Ruminations on a Road
Opening up Buddhist Mustang in Tibet to new Chinese trade routes brings cultural challenges and environmental concerns
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
The Ten Oxherding Pictures
The ten oxherding pictures describe the Zen training path to enlightenment, Folk images are accompanied by poems and commentaries. They depict a young oxherder whose quest leads him to tame, train, and transform his heart and…
Divine and Intimate
Remnants of Tibetan Splendor at The Newark Museum
Socially Engaged Buddhism for the New Millennium; Global Healing; The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism
Socially Engaged Buddhism for the New MilleniumEssays in Honor of the Ven. Phgra Dhammapitaka (Bhikkhu P. A. Payutto) On His 60th Birthday AnniversaryEdited by Sulak Sivaraksa, Pipob Udomittipong, and Chris WalkerSathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation and Foundation for Children:…
The Web: Pure Land or Hell Realm?
In the metaphor of the diamond net of Indra, there is a glittering jewel at every juncture of the vast web of consciousness, a jewel intimately connected with, and reflecting, every other. It is a fitting…
In the News Spring 2000
LANDED On January 5, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, the 14-year-old head of the Kagyu order, having left Tibet under the cloak of darkness, arrived safely in Dharamsala, India, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Although…
Letters Spring 2000
Charles Johnson’s Dharma Light I appreciate “A Sangha by Another Name” by Charles Johnson. Like other African-Americans, my sense of social justice was honed in the Christian church. Now, I am also drawn by Buddhist practices…
Fosco Maraini
Maraini: Acts of Photography, Acts of Love
Nagarjuna’s Verses from the Center
Although Nagarjuna is arguably the most important figure in Buddhism after the Buddha himself, very little is known about him. All that can be said with any certainty is that he lived at some time around…
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
Zen Talks on the Sandokai
TeachingsMagazine | On Science
The Science of Enlightenment
Quarks 1, Bootstraps 0
Dharma Rain
Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism
Yawn 2K
The anticipation and subsequent nonevent of Y2K reminds me of a favorite childhood book, The Camel Who Took a Walk, a story about what happens when nothing happens: A beautiful camel goes for a dawn stroll;…
Holy Smoke
Pico Iyer on Jane Campion's new film Holy Smoke