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Walking Alone
The way of Achaan Runjuan
Impossible Vacation
A Pocono Zen retreat
Taking Chances
A conversation with Laurie Anderson and John Cage
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Accusing the Tiger
Sexual ethics and Buddhist teachers
In Exile from Siam
An interview with Sulak Sivaraksa
Sentient Questions
The Dalai Lama questions scientists about the nature of life
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Formless Form
Buddhism and twelve-step programs
The Jesus Lama: Thomas Merton in the Himalayas
An interview with Harold Talbott
Departments
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Man Who Woke Up
Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what…
Great Swan
Meetings with Ramakrishna, calligraphy by Michele Laporte
Books in Brief
A roundup of new reading
Money and the Meaning of Life
What is the right balance between the material and the spiritual? And how can the effort of making money support a spiritual effort?
MindScience: An East-West Dialogue
“Buddhist thinkers also find it extremely beneficial to incorporate into their thinking the insights of various scientific fields, such as quantum mechanics and neurobiology, where there are also equally strong elements of uncertainty and essencelessness,”
Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus
A “radical” style of religious teaching which is designed to shock the conventional mind and at the same time to communicate an “alternative vision to that which governs ordinary life.”
The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha
Energetic and vividly detailed poems of women on the road to enlightenment and independence.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
On Origination
Translated by Maurice Walshe
The Code of the Warrior: In History, Myth, and Everyday Life
A historical and spiritual history of the warrior is a doubly difficult task: not only must the author create an accurate history, he also must address each warrior within his own cultural context.
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber By Ken Wilber. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 413 pp. $25.00 (hardcover). When Ken Wilber and Treya Killam met in 1983, it was…
The Whole World Is A Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life
The Whole World Is A Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life With questions and commentary by Zen Master Seung Sahn. Edited by Jane McLaughlin and Paul Muenzen. Charles E. Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1992. 244…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The First Precept
To refrain from killing is the first Buddhist precept. The Theravada tradition of Southeast Asia interprets this precept in terms that parallel a Western sense of morality: there is a clear-cut distinction between killing and not…
Narrow Road to the Interior
Narrow Road to the Interior By Matsuo Basho. Translated by Sam Hamill. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 105 pp. $10.00 (paperback). As Sam Hamill reminds us in the preface to this lucid and engaging translation, Basho’s haibun—brief prose…
The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism
The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism By Dudjom Jigdal Yeshe Dorje Volume 1: The Translations, 973 pp. Book 1: Fundamentals of the Nyingma School Book 2: History of the Nyingma School Volume 2: Reference Material, 485…
Thai Women in Buddhism
Thai Women in Buddhism By Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 110 pp. $12.00 (paperback) Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Thammasat University in Bangkok, has written a book as skillful as a surgeon’s knife,…
Monkey: A Journey to the West
Monkey: A Journey to the West Retold by David Kherdian. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1992. 184 pp. $10.00 (paperback). Good things aren’t as hard to come by as our current economic gloom may suggest. A beautiful retelling…
In the News Summer 1992
An update on Wat Promkhunaram in Phoenix, Arizona, and more
Giving Birth to Ancestors
A seasoned practitioner reflects on the importance of spiritually connecting to sentient beings of the past.
Letters to the Editor Summer 1992
From our readers
Speaking of Silence
A letter from the editor
Cambodia
The Aftermath
Tasting Darkness
Whenever I sith with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the far-off shrill of an insect, lost in contemplation of flavors to come, I feel as if I were being…
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation
The Bodhisattva Vows
The Great Vows, known as the Bodhisattva Vows, probably originated in China around the sixth century and may have been derived from an earlier Sanskrit gatha (a four-line verse that sums up an aspect of the…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Summer 1992
Re: rats, mice, and cockroaches
Columns
Buddhist Journal Beat – Summer 1992
A survey of material from Buddhist journals compiled by Rick Fields, Tricycle's Editor-at-Large