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The Many Facets of Michael Roach
“There’s nothing lonelier than a Buddhist in Alabama” is the kind of comment I hear from many Buddhists who live in outlying regions of North America where their sangha is small or nonexistent and information about Buddhist practice and philosophy is scarce. By tapping into computer networks, however, geographic isolation can be overcome. This rapidly […]
The First Computer Mandala
Jaron Lanier on the Potential of Virtual Reality
On Dharma, Democracy, and the Information Superhighway
A Special Section
Stephen Batchelor on the American-born Ajahn Sumedho and the Chithurst Monks
Miranda Shaw Talks About Tantra
This is the second of two excerpts adapted from a book of the same name, to be published in the fall by Shambhala Publications. The book takes the form of a journal written while the author was on pilgrimage with his wife, the photographer Lynn Davis. They took the journey six months after the death of Lynn’s twenty-one-year-old son, Ayrev. The first installement featured extracts of their travels in Thailand. This, the last excerpt, finds them in Burma and Cambodia.
Or, Why the Buddha Had to Make Some Rules
Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? a film by Bae Yang-Kyun
A Profile of Philip Whalen
In the High—and Hot—Seat In April, the Dalai Lama’s U.S. tour included two symposia on science and religion, one at Stanford University in California, the other at Columbia University in New York City. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, he was hosted by Gelek Rinpoche and the Jewel Heart Buddhist Center and received the Paul Wallenberg Human […]
Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
A Magazine That Bridged World Views
Thubten Chodron Snow Lion Publications: Ithaca, New York, 1993. 189 pp., $12.95 (paper) Designed to clarify points of practice rather than to be a comprehensive introduction to Buddhism, What Color is Your Mind? is largely made up of questions and answers. Thubten Chodron uses this format to full advantage, offering clear, concise responses (usually […]
Buddhahood According to the Avatamsaka Sutra
Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts
Glenn H. MullinQuest Books/Theosophical Publishing House: Wheaton, Illinois, 1994.265 pp., $14.00 (paper). Geared to the nonspecialist, Mystical Verses of a Mad Dalai Lama offers a fine introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the institution of the Dalai Lamas, a readable biography, and beautifully phrased translations of the Second Dalai Lama’s songs of enlightenment. The Second Dalai […]
Liberation Through Understanding in the Between
A Life of Dreams
The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myodo
Ken MitchellSoho Press: New York, 1993.328 pp., $22.00 (cloth). In this North American road novel, an introspective “perfessor” and his lubricious sidekick take off into the Wild Blue Yonder—except that the Official Road Novel Vehicle, a ’58 GMC pickup, breaks down just before the book’s opening paragraph, and the duo end up in Tibet, exploring […]
Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century
Occidentals on Orientalism I respect and applaud Professor Lopez’s exposure of Western Tibetist myths (“New Age Orientalism: The Case of Tibet,” Vol. III, No. 3). To criticize his article for imbalance when it was clearly intended to redress an imbalance would be unfair. Nevertheless there are two points I would like to make. In about […]
One story retold from the life of the Buddha concerns a mother who loses her child. Distraught, the woman wanders aimlessly, clutching her dead infant to her breast. When she hears that the great sage Shakyamuni is expounding the dharma nearby, she goes to him and asks, “Why has this happened to me?” In response, […]
An Interview with Phil Jackson
Re: Right Speech and Gossip
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama “What do we mean by bodhisattva? Bodhi means enlightenment, the state devoid of all defects and endowed with all good qualities. Sattva refers to someone who has courage and confidence and who strives to attain enlightenment for the sake of all beings. Those who have this spontaneous, sincere wish […]