Dolma Choetsu's story of her pilgrimage from Tibet into exile

A testament to Korean Buddhism's resilience, the Tripitaka Koreana has withstood centuries of conflict to remain intact at Haein-sa Temple.

An interview with Taitetsu Unno

Although it is the oldest, best-organized, and most financially endowed Buddhist organization in North America, Shin Buddhism remains relatively isolated in American society. Why, after one hundred years, does it still appear foreign?

Chaos theory, karma, and other fluctuations

Abortion practices in Japan and what they can teach the West

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam in October 1926 and became a monk at the age of sixteen.

Including an essay by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Emptiness was both subject and source for the Abstract Expressionists. Within the boundaries defined by an empty white canvas, they found an arena for action and awareness, and they explored it with varying degrees of clarity.…

Living Sutra: In Memoriam On March 3 a Vietnamese Buddhist monk was stabbed to death by a homeless man whom he had taken into his temple in Philadelphia. Thich Hanh Man, 43, had served only three…

While visiting the University of Michigan, the Dalai Lama offered his response to a presentation on the origins of Mahayana.

Every spring I receive my best gardening instruction from walking along the edge of our cultivated farmland. I walk just inside the fields, right up against the nine-foot-high deer fence, running my hand over the woven…

The Sanskrit word mantra combines the root man (“to think”) with the suffix tra (“instrument” or “tool”). Therefore, mantra means literally “tool for thinking.” Since earliest Buddhist times, the repetition of sacred phrases has been used…

An interview with Paula Newby-Fraser

Let it go and be spontaneous, Experience no going or staying. Accord with your nature, unite with the Way, Wander at ease, without vexation. The most important thing in practice is to be natural and spontaneous.…

  This passage is from the Buddha-charita, the first complete biography of the Buddha, written by the poet Ashvaghosha, probably in the first century C.E. The Buddha-charita is made up of twenty-eight songs recounting events in Shakyamuni…

A Poem by Zen Master Ryokan

Craig and Devra Morton Builder and Psychotherapist Austin, Texas When we go to sitting meditation our son, who’s five-and-a-half, goes and sits there and either reads a book or eats something, and he also puts Goldfish…

Paul Carus and the "Gospel of Buddha"

Down By Law Regarding the ten-million-dollar lawsuit against Sogyal Rinpoche for sexual abuse [Spring 1995 In the News]: While Sogyal Rinpoche remains innocent until or unless proven guilty, whether or not he is within the ignoble…

“Buddha!” she called. “Come here! Buddha!” Her command had yet to work, and the young woman anxiously fingered the visor of her baseball cap. “Buddha!” “You call your dog Buddha?” I asked in disbelief as a…

Twenty-one questions on the nature of self