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What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1992
Re: Euthanasia
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Through a Glass, Darkly
Looking back I wince at the memory of reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead to my dying grandfather. The arrogance of imposing those terrifying descriptions of the final deterioration on the faltering impulses of an old…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
No Second Guessing
An Interview with Stephen Levine
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Very Easy Death
The pneumatic mattress massaged her skin; there were pads between her knees, and they had a hoop over them to prevent the sheets from touching; another arrangement stopped her heels touching the draw-sheet: but for all that,…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Good Death
Mercy, Deliverance, and the Nature of Suffering
Features
The Science of Compassion
I exit the subway to my quiet Brooklyn neighborhood and there he is again, wearing a ragged T-shirt, torn jeans, and dirty sneakers, sweeping the subway steps with an old broom. He looks at me pleadingly. Feeling…
In the Mix
with actor Peter Coyote
After Patriarchy
A sacred outlook in everyday life
Himalayan Intrigue
The search for the new Karmapa
A Life Outside of Time
Five years go, I traveled to Kyoto to learn about stillness and focus in the Zen temples whose pictures I had long admired. What I quickly learned was that Zen required much more commitment and rigor than…
As American as Apple Pie?
An Insider's view of Nichiren Shoshu
Politics and Prayer
Jerry Brown talks with Les Levine
Departments
Books in Brief
Some people in Western culture remember that holiday gift-giving is meant to be a joyful commemoration of great sacred events. In this all but forgotten spirit, here are a few books by the Dalai Lama of…
Temple Dusk: Zen Haiku
By Mitsu Suzuki, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Gregory A. Wood
Dream Yoga and the Practices of Natural Light
By Namkhai Norbu
The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Environment and Civilization
Edited by Max Oelschlaeger
The Blue Cliff Record
Translated by Thomas Cleary and J. C. Cleary
Relative World, Ultimate Mind
By The Twelfth Tai Situpa
The American Encounter with Buddhism 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
By Thomas A. Tweed
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By Sogyal Rinpohce, edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
A Prince Indeed
The Birth of Siddartha
The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa
Translated by Lucien Stryk with the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Buddha Got Enlightened Under a Tree
A few years ago I spent a week doing a retreat next to a stream at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in southern Colorado. The ground rules were fairly simple: retreatants were to live…
Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence / Zen Awakening and Society
Edited by Kenneth Kraft / By Christopher Ives
Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka
Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992. 238 pp. $14.95 (paperback). In the desperation sweeping our world today, religion plays an increasing role in civil conflict. Yet the case…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Enduring The Fires
From anger to patience
The Rain of Law
Thoreau's Translation of the Lotus Sutra
In the News Winter 1992
IN MEMORIAM On October 19, environmentalist, feminist, and Tibet activist Petra Kelly who was best known as the founder of the Green Party in Germany, was discovered dead along with her longtime companion Gert Bastion in…
Just the Right Amount
From a Zen Workshop with John Daido Loori
Tender Mercies
Buddhism emphasizes that death has only one intrinsic quality: not deliverance or joy, sadness or salvation—but certainty. In a universe of variables, it remains the only reliable beacon. To contemplate death, then, and allow this one certainty…
Fancy Dancers
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
Columns
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Buddhist Journal Beat
TURNING WHEEL The Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship has undergone a name and format change. Now known as Turning Wheel, this well-designed magazine edited by Susan Moon does an excellent job exploring the twofold purpose…