Traditions

ZEN & CHAN
A puzzle made from a Chinese version of the Heart Sutra.

A Chan Student’s Guide to Buddhism’s famed Heart Sutra

Chan practitioner Mark Van Buren shares his journey from chanting the Heart Sutra without understanding to gradually uncovering its transformative wisdom, exploring the interplay of compassion and wisdom at the heart of this profound text, and how this realization can ease our personal suffering and deepen our spiritual practice.

Mark Van Buren

THERAVADA & INSIGHT

Get Very, Very Close

Sayadaw U Pandita’s shares his instructions for satipatthana vipassana.

Sayadaw U Pandita

TIBETAN BUDDHISM

In Translation: Nothing to be Discarded or Kept

Heart advice by Dzogchen masters, from the newly translated collection of teachings, Quintessential Dzogchen.

Lion’s Roar

PURE LAND

How Amida Buddha Illuminates the Path of Compassion

Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi shares the history and practice of Shin Buddhism, offering a pathway to awakening through the compassion of Amida Buddha.

Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi

NICHIREN

Nichiren Shonin: A Teacher of Equality

Based on letters Nichiren Shonin wrote to his female followers, Myokei Caine-Barrett explains why the thirteenth-century champion of the Lotus Sutra was a practical feminist.

Myokei Caine-Barrett

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How Can the Dharma Help Us Work Through Grief?

Breeshia Wade, Tenku Ruff, Damchö Diana Finnegan share how the dharma can help us work through grief.

Tenku Ruff