Long-Bin Chen, via the New York Optimist, In my artwork I use printed matter – discarded books, magazines, computer printouts etc. – the cultural debris of our information society.  My art form explores different cultural meanings…

A few weeks ago I was looking through the first issue of Tricycle and I came across a mention of The Magic Life of Milarepa, a comic book about the great 11th century Tibetan saint illustrated…

I recently came across the book Zen Is Right Here on one of our bookshelves.  It is a collection of short stories and anecdotes about Zen master Shunryu Suzuki.  The pieces are rarely longer than a…

In our Summer 2010 issue, there is an interview with transhumanist, bioethicist, and former Buddhist monk James Hughes. In Cyborg Buddha, Hughes takes on the relationship between Buddhism and transhumanism.  Like other transhumanists, he makes the…

Upon hearing that I am a Buddhist, people often ask me about reincarnation, as if merely having taken refuge somehow makes me an authority (it doesn’t).  The most common question is whether or not I “believe…

I remember being very young and being given my first prayer wheel.  I wasn’t given any explanation or  instruction aside from that it “had blessings in it” and that I was supposed to spin it clockwise. …