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A New Place, A New Time
An interview with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche about the leadership of Shambhala, the legacy of his father, Trungpa Rinpoche, and the future of Buddhism in the West.
Buddha Book
A Meeting of Images
From Mysticism To Murder
Lawrence Shainberg interviews Robert Jay Lifton on Aum Shinrikyo
Projecting Tibet
Screenwriter Melissa Mathison speaks with the Dalai Lama about getting the script of Kundun right
Julius Goldwater: The Good Shepherd
In 1928, Julius Goldwater took Buddhist vows. During World War II, he was priest to thousands of interned Japanese. Today, Goldwater—perhaps the oldest living Western convert to Buddhism—continues to expound and explore his American dharma. Julius…
From the Himalayas to Hollywood
The legacy of Lost Horizon
Between the Image and the Reality
Orville Schell interviews Becky Johnston, screenwriter of Seven Years in Tibet
Departments
Zen At Work: A Zen Teacher’s 30-Year Journey in Corporate America
By Les Kaye
The Masters Of Meditation And Miracles: The Longchen Nyingthig Lineage Of Tibetan Buddhism
The Masters of Meditation and Miracles: The Longchen Nyingthig Lineage of Tibetan BuddhismTulku ThondupEdited by Harold TalbottShambhala Publications: Boston, 1996.383 pp., $35 (cloth). The Longchen Nyingthig lineage of Tibetan Buddhism is said to have originated with…
Letters to the Editor Winter 1997
Death Matters In the article “What Is Death?” by Robert Thurman, published in your Fall 1997 issue, Mr. Thurman criticizes materialists for a view that no modern, educated materialist would ever hold: i.e., that consciousness is…
Opening the Lotus: A Woman’s Guide to Buddhism
By Sandy Boucher
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
By Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist
By Gretel Ehrlich
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Afterword
Full Moons and Dirty Diapers
My infant daughter Jordan doesn’t let me sit zazen. All day, she conspires with her older sister Erin so that when the toddler naps, the infant is awake and when the infant naps, the toddler is…
Greener Grass
The movies Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet will introduce millions of Westerners to the cultural and religious heritage of Tibet, as well as to the Chinese takeover. Indeed, the hope of both screenwritersMelissa Mathison and Becky…
Diamond Sutra
By Colin Hester
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Gone To Seed
Upright, well-mannered gardens, with tidy beds of manicured lettuce corseted by tightly clipped boxwood hedges, make me itch. I have a naughty mind that wants to scratch rank pigwood seed between all neat and trim rows.…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Practices of Purification
THE GOLDSMITH Shakyamuni Buddha THERE ARE THESE GROSS IMPURITlES in gold: dirty sand, gravel, and grit. The dirt-washer, having placed the gold in a vat, washes it again and again until he has washed them away.…
Allan Bennett
Theravada Monk and Pioneer Publisher
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
A Glob of Tar
Even though we practice, we continue to fall for pleasant feelings. Feelings are illusory on many levels. We don’t realize that they’re changeable and unreliable. Instead of offering pleasure, they offer us nothing but stress—yet we’re…
In the News Winter 1997
Aide to Tibet In a move that marks a new era in American diplomatic relations with Tibet, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright announced in July that she would appoint a “special coordinator” to handle American…
The Religions of Tibet in Practice
Edited by Donald Lopez, Jr.
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1997
Re: When do you lie?
