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CultureMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Lama Shabkar
Sheep and goats beg for protection from slaughter
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Kate Wheeler
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian; the Dalai Lama, the embodiment of compassion, eats meat by his doctors’ orders. Clearly, there’s more to mind than what is put into the mouth: yet, as long as food remains a…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Zen Master Ryokan
When a young monk questions Ryokan about his consumption of meat, the Zen master provides food for thought
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Bodhin Kjolhede
Vegetarianism as attachment or compassion?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Philip Glass
Vegetarianism should be pursued as a compassionate practice, rather than for environmental or health reasons
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Gelek Rinpoche
Eating necessarily involves inflicting harm
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—John Stevens
John Stevens delves into the Buddha's culinary context and the evidence we have for what he ate—including meat
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—John McClellan
John McClellan weighs in on the debate about Buddhist meat consumption, inviting us to face our food directly and empathetically
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Shakyamuni Buddha
In this extract from the Jivaka Sutta, Shakyamuni Buddha responds to a follower's inquiry about the ethics of eating meat
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Meat: To Eat It or Not—Stuart Smithers
The Buddha's last meal and the place of meat in the early Buddhist canon
Meat: To Eat It or Not
A Debate on Food and Practice
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Finnegan At His Wake
How crazy can wisdom get? Stephen Butterfield questions the Double Mirror of his Vajrayana lineage.
Nothing Special: The Buddhist Sex Quandary
There is sex and then there is sexuality. Sallie Tisdale explores the difference.
The Long Learning Curve
An interview with Richard Baker Roshi
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Letting Go: Life on the Hospice Ward
A new volunteer comes to terms with the ephemerality of relationships in a hospice ward
Beastie Boys: The Big Show
An Interview with Adam Yauch
A Sarasvati Empowerment
With Sakya Jetsun Chimey
A Democracy of the Imagination
From Beethoven to Buddha: Great Art and Great Dharma have more in common than meets the eye
Departments
Thank You and OK!
An American Zen Failure in Japan
Wonders of the Natural Mind & Heart Drops of Dharmakaya
and Heart Drops of Dharmakaya: Dzogchen Practice of the Bon Tradition
The Protean Self
Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
The Country of Dreams and Dust
Poems by Russell Leong
The Ground We Share
Everyday Practice, Buddhist and Christian
Buddha and The Beasts
Westerners who know little of Buddhism often associate it with vegetarianism. Zen monks in Japan are mistakenly thought to subsist on a diet of nothing but brown rice. A book of “famous vegetarians” features an image…
Lives of the Nuns
Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries
In the News Winter 1994
Tibetan prisons, mandalas in Watts, Italian Buddhists, and more in Buddhist news
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1994
Re: Anti-Aging Cream
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind
The Zen Journal and Letters of Maura "Soshin" O'Halloran
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
What Love Is
On the spiritual path, there's nothing to get, and everything to get rid of. The first thing to let go of is trying to "get" love, and instead to give it wholeheartedly.
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up: Episode Seven
The seventh excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Dragon Wisdom
The Life of Ruth Fuller Sasaki
Beyond Optimism
Beyond Optimism Ken Jones Jon Carpenter Publishing: Oxford, U. K., 1993. 212 pp., £9.99 (paper). Beyond Optimism is good, albeit occasionally bitter, medicine for a species caught between two conflicting realities—total dependence on wealth created by…
Letters to the Editor Winter 1994
The Real Problem—Not I was very disappointed in the article “Becoming Buddha: The Life and Times of Poet John Giorno” [Vol. IV, No.1]. His life is not exemplary in any shape or form. The real problem…