Buddhist Traditions

MeditationMagazine | Special Section

Conceptions of Happiness

Happiness is awakening to the question “Who is happy, who is unhappy, who lives, and who dies?” True happiness is uncaused, arising from the very nature of being itself. We seek happiness only when we are…

By Daniel Goleman

IdeasMagazine | Feature

Enlightenment Needs a Minyan

I want to explore the possibility, within Buddhism, of enlightenment as a collective as well as an individual process, nurtured by a practice of public truth-telling in a community of spiritual equals. The seeds of this…

By Lewis Richmond

Magazine | In the News

In the News Spring 1996

PRETENDER TO THE THRONE In our last issue we reported on the outrage of Chinese officials when the Dalai Lama announced that a six-year­ old Tibetan boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, had been determined to be the reincarnation of…

By Tricycle

IdeasMagazine | From The Academy

A Sangha-less Sangha

One becomes a Buddhist by going for refuge in the “three gems”—in other words by saying, “I go for refuge to the Buddha, I go for refuge to the dharma, I go for refuge to the…

By Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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