Look inside the Summer 2017 issue of Buddhadharma, with features on exploring emptiness, and why shunyata is dynamic, intimate, and workable.
Entering the jhanas is not easy—the harder you try, the more difficult it becomes. But as Leigh Brasington [...]
I'm not sure I understand the statement, often evoked by Buddhists, “Don't believe everything you think.” How [...]
Jan Chozen Bays on the incessant desires that fuel our confusion and suffering. Desire. That’s what The Buddha found after six years of [...]
Jan Chozen Bays explains how to recognize and tame the critical commentary we replay in our minds. Once when the Buddha was injured by an enemy, [...]
Paul L. Swanson reviews The Lotus Sutra: A Biography by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. From the Summer 2017 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's [...]
Vicki Mackenzie’s The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi (Shambhala 2017) tells the story of the first Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun. [...]
Jodo Shinsu minister Jeff Wilson on why teaching children the dharma is genuine bodhisattva work. I’ve noticed that you can basically divide [...]
Question: I’m addicted to pornography; I have been for a long time. I have good days in my practice, but often I end up bringing pornography into my [...]
The Summer 2017 issue of Buddhadharma is available now. Preview the magazine contents and sample articles below. Destroyed Not Destroyed In his [...]
The great teacher who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and played a historic role in the establishment of Buddhist practice in the West was born [...]
