Category: Buddhist Wisdom
Love Makes the Difference
The Dalai Lama draws lessons for all of us from his own experience dealing with difficult times. A conversation with Mary Robinson, Pico Iyer.
An Interview with Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion, A Memoir
Interview with Dani Shapiro, author of five novels, about how yoga and meditation helped her reckon with painful questions.
Changling Rinpoche talks about Dilgo Khyentse Yansi Rinpoche’s upcoming visit
Changling Rinpoche talks about his teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the qualities of his successor, Yangsi Rinpoche, and his upcoming tour.
The Practice of a Bodhisattva
The bodhisattva’s commitment to the benefit of others manifests in the practice of the six perfections, the 17th Karmapa explains.
Groundbreaking three-year retreat draws to a close
One of the largest long-term Buddhist retreats to take place in the West has reached its conclusion.
The Symbol and the Symbolized
A dharma discourse from the late John Daido Loori, Roshi on the profound meaning of art and creativity.
The Art of Awareness
What makes art a transformative practice, explains Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, is allowing the art to reflect a natural, uncontrived awareness.
Till We Meet Again
Robert Thurman pays tribute to Daido Loori and his legacy in American Buddhism.
Forum: Toughing It Out
How Practice Centers Are Dealing With the Recession: A panel discussion with Bob Agoglia, Jon Barbieri, Evan Kavanagh and Susan O’Connell.
Commentary: We’ve Come a Long Way
Charles Prebish reflects on the changes in American Buddhism that have occurred in the thirty years since the publication of his seminal work.
Hidden No More
Joan Sutherland reviews "Zen Women: Beyond Tea-Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters", by Grace Schireson.
Lives Lived: Remembering Lisa Hilliard
Eve Rosenthal remembers the late Lisa Hilliard, a practitioner from the Shambhala sangha of Halifax.
Book Briefs – Winter 2009
Brief summaries of Buddhist books from the Winter 2009 issue of the Buddhadharma magazine.
Karen Armstrong unveils The Charter for Compassion
Author and former nun turned prolific religious historian Karen Armstrong is unveiling the words of her proposed "Charter for Compassion."
First Light
Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of A Natural History of the Senses, offers a series of meditations on dawn and decay, koans and creation.
What Mindfulness Does — An excerpt from Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness
From Deborah Schoeberlein, we learn what mindfulness is, what it isn't, and how the benefits of its practice might show themselves.
The Great Way — A classic teaching by John Daido Loori
A classic commentary on this seminal Zen text by the American roshi, John Daido Loori, who died this morning at the age of 78.