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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Survival Tactics for the Mind
Thanissaro Bhikkhu speaks about tradition, sexism, and following the Buddha's rules
Teachings of the Forest Masters
A Resource Book Guide
Buddha in the Wild: The Thai Forest Tradition
Lessons of the Forest: Shakyamuni Buddha was born under a tree, became enlightened under a tree, and died under a tree. Thai forest monasticism emulates the Buddha’s lifelong connection to the natural world and is considered…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Just Another Thing in the Forest
Ajahn Amaro, the co-abbot of Abhayagiri forest monastery in northern California, on the renunciant life, divesting the heart of baggage, and feeding the mosquitoes.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Knowing the Tiger’s Growl
An Account of the Eighth Austere Practice
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Death Watch
In late 1947, the great meditation master Ajaan Chah (1918-1992) arrived at Khrong Forest Monastery. He found that if he wanted to stay at this wat, he would have to follow the traditional thudong (dhutanga) practice…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Conserving the Inner Ecology
Buddhadasa explains why "Dhamma is the Ecology of the Mind"
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Home Culture of the Dharma
The Story of a Thai Forest Tradition
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
A Clear Awareness of Nature
A lay practitioner and revered teacher, Kee Nanayon offers a female voice rarely heard in a tradition dominated by monks Thai society, like most societies, has done little to support women in dharma practice, but nevertheless,…
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Vajra Gun
I have covered my badge with black tape so it will not reflect the light. The January midnight air is colder than the gun in my hand, a .357-caliber Magnum revolver, made of blued steel, so it…
Lobsang Rampa: The Mystery of the Three-Eyed Lama
The one-l lama, He’s a priest. The two-l llama, He’s a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn’t any Three-l lllama. –Ogden Nash In 1956, the British firm Secker & Warburg published The…
Wandering Clouds: The Poets of Ch’an Buddhism
Whoever said poetry or Buddhism was anything unusual?
Departments
Letters to the Editor Winter 1998
Lama Drama If Thinley Norbu Rinpoche has the severe philosophical and practical problems with Western Buddhist teachers, groups, and students that he claims to have, then it should be plain and clear that factual examples need…
About Books
Publisher's Weekly—Barometer of the Book Industry—Tells Us Who's Jumping on the Bandwagon
IdeasMagazine | In The Footsteps Of The Buddha
Ashoka, Beloved of the Gods
Gita Mehta considers the ancient Buddhist king in the context of a nuclear-armed India and finds his legacy never more relevant.
Agaja’s Spade
I have a new spade this winter, heavy, a little stiff, and very sharp. As I work digging a fresh bed for Bleu de Solaize leeks, I think of my friend Agaja’s twenty-year-old spade. Agaja is…
Landscapes of Wonder
By Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Encouragement Stick: 7 Views
Thin, flat, and hard, the kyosaku remains the icon of tough Zen training
In the News Winter 1998
Do I Have a Witness? An Anglo-Catholic from Massachusetts,who is now a Buddhist nun in the Nipponza Myohoji order, a Japanese Buddhist peace movement, had a dream. Sister Clare Carter, as she is still called, along…
Putting Buddhism to Work
By Shinichi Inoue
The Clinton Koan
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What was your face before you were born? These Zen koans have seeped into the English vernacular as “riddles.” What characterizes a riddle, however, is to ask a…
Tibet: Through the Red Box
By Peter Sís
The Bond Between Women
By China Galland
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1998
RE: what President Clinton will come back as in his next life
TeachingsMagazine | Parting Words
The Duck Call
The following story is based on a Chinese Buddhist scripture called Bayu-jing, or The One Hundred Parable Sutra. It was originally translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in 492 C.E. by Gunavriddi, a Buddhist teacher from central…
Cooking for the Buddha
Developing Balanced Sensitivity
By Alexander Berzin
Sacred Vows
U Sam Oeur
Buddha’s Nature
Wes Nisker speaks with Tricycle about his new book
Columns
The Science of Enlightenment: The Buddha’s Answer to Darwin and God
Why is Buddhism closer to science than other religions? The Buddha taught that everything has causes and that only understanding can yield spiritual freedom. Since the Buddha saw that nothing is unchanging, the “Supreme Scientist” rejected…