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Exile Spirit
A Profile of Thanissaro Bhikkhu and the Metta Forest Monastery
CultureMagazine | Special Section
No Place to Hide
A Talk by the Director of Gampo Abbey
Buddha in the Market
An interview with Korean Zen Master Samu Sunim
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
It’s Not Our Karma
Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka Call for Equality
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Clouds & Water
The Monastic Imperative
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Spring Sesshin at Shokoku-ji
Shokoku Temple is in Northern Kyoto, on level ground, with a Christian college just south of it and many blocks of crowded little houses and stone-edged dirt roads north. It is the mother-temple of many branch…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Homelessness Into Home
On the Origins of Buddhist Monasticism
Going for Refuge
An Interview with Sangharakshita, head of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Creating Sangha
Few would disagree that monasticism, with its vows and disciplines, provides the time and freedom to reflect on the dharma and a conducive framework for cultivation of concentration and insight. For this reason, since the time…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Merit of Becoming a Monk
13th-century Zen Master DOGEN
Monasticism at the Millennium
This special section looks at monasticism East and West. Here, Westerners challenge the Asian traditions of granting supremacy to monastics over the laity, and of monks over nuns. Contemporary teachers in Europe and North America, influenced…
Released from All Bounds
An Interview with Konchog Tendzin
Features
On the Road to Bodh Gaya
I-TSING, 671-695 C.E. At a distance of ten days’ journey from the Mahabodhi Vihara [in Bodh Gaya] we passed a great mountain and bogs; the pass is dangerous and difficult to cross. It is important…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Ambivalent Zen
A personal account
Meeting the Buddha
On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India
The Bodhi Tree
THE BODHI TREE The spot under the fig, or Bodhi, tree where the Buddha attained nirvana is a kind of geographical omphalos or axis mundi for Buddhists. Buddhism was conceived under the Bodhi tree, the only…
Departments
Useless is Best
I HAVE OFTEN STOOD on interminable lines—at the bank, the post office, the airport, the supermarket—and succumbed to sharing with other corporate-held hostages those rolled-up eyes, grimaces and audible sighs that communicate extreme annoyance. But more…
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
The Shining Shining Path
A Review by Jeff Zaleski
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Zen Karmics
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
The Green Buddha by Christopher Titmuss
A Review by Allan Hunt Badiner
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Living Buddha, Living Christ
A Review by Dan Wakefield
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
A Review by George Vecsey
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; The Spirit of Evolution
A Review by Jeffrey McIntyre
Letter to the Schools of the Buddha
On April 15, 1925, the French founder of the Theatre of the Absurd, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) published his “Letter to the Schools of the Buddha” in the third issue of La Revolution Surrealiste. In the same…
In the News Winter 1995
TIBET OR NOT TIBET At the U.N.’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing this past September and the parallel Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum in the suburb of Huairou several issues had delegates and Chinese…
Emotional Bandwidth
A FIRST-RATE DEMONSTRATION of the World Wide Web—which shows instantaneous global access to information about any conceivable subject—presents a dizzying realm of connective possibility. For some, the Net embodies a way to physically wire together human…
IdeasMagazine | From The Academy
Buddhism(s)?
EVERYBODY KNOWS there is really no such thing as Hinduism. The name is derived from an ancient word for sea, sindhu, used also for the Indus River. Persians living to the west of the Indus modified it…
The Tree at the Bottom of Time
THE WINTER SOLSTICE DRAWS NEAR. Now is the “standstill of the sun.” Germinid meteor showers of early December claim the night sky, obscured only by the huge disc of the Wolf Moon. This is the best…
IdeasMagazine | Uncommon Sense
Truth or Consequences
IF THE ANCIENT CHINESE proverb has much relevance today, I would say that I am cursed by living in interesting times. Beginning zazen while wearing the uniform of a U.S. Marine thirty years ago, I began…
Letters to the Editor Winter 1995
Skillful Scenes Do Buddhists believe in God? It seems that they do! I read in your recent report on religious leaders’ opposition to the patenting of animals [“In the News,” Fall 1995], that four well known…
Columns
Tommy’s Corner
Beyond Rangoon
BURMA IS, IN ITS WAY, a kind of shadow Tibet, Tibet without the glamour or mystique, a “Land of Buddhas” as devoutly constant as the land of six thousand monasteries to the north. The charms of…
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1995
re: life as a Korean Nun