Who Were the Hungry Ghosts, Really?
The evolving stories of pretas reveal much about Buddhist views of karma, cosmology, and grief.
Death & Dying
The List
A Buddhist reality check
To Be or Not to Be
How do we live with this outrageous fortune?
The Grieving Body
Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor explores the toll that loss takes on our bodies—and what this can teach us about care, compassion, and interdependence.
The Gift of Fearlessness
A teaching and practice on end of life care
Personal Reflections Tricycle Talks
Becoming Aflame
Essayist Pico Iyer discusses how sitting in stillness can train us to care for one another in a world on fire.
How to Grieve What We’ve Lost
Clinical psychologist Sameet Kumar offers concrete strategies for finding meaning and cultivating resilience in the face of loss.
A Safe Place to Fall Apart
Palliative care physician BJ Miller explores how studying Buddhism and art history has radically shifted how he thinks about disability and death.
Embracing Contradiction among New York’s Forgotten Dead
A day in the life of Hart Island’s cemetery chaplain, Justin von Bujdoss
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