Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Exile Spirit
A Profile of Thanissaro Bhikkhu and the Metta Forest Monastery
Monasticism
CultureMagazine | 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…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Buddha in the Market
An interview with Korean Zen Master Samu Sunim
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…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Column
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1995
re: life as a Korean Nun
CultureMagazine | Special Section
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…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Going for Refuge
An Interview with Sangharakshita, head of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
CultureMagazine | Special Section
No Place to Hide
A Talk by the Director of Gampo Abbey
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Homelessness Into Home
On the Origins of Buddhist Monasticism
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