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How to Meditate: The Buddhist Guide
Meditation isn't very hard. In fact: if you can breathe, you can meditate. Learn how to meditate, as taught by the Buddha, with our easy-to-follow guide.
How Mr. Rogers Taught Us to Love
While he was changing his tennis shoes, Mr. Rogers was quietly changing children’s lives — and ours as well.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria explores relationship between Buddhism and contemporary art
The Canadian gallery's project will focus on artists who have heavily drawn on Buddhism in their art, including Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, John Cage, and Tenzing Rigdol.
The End of Ice
Avid mountaineer and former war reporter Dahr Jamail chronicles the world’s environmental crisis for his new book, "The End of Ice."
Review: The Most Important Point
We review "The Most Important Point: Zen Teachings of Edward Espe Brown" edited by Danny S. Parker.
Zen Buddhist poet and novelist Ocean Vuong awarded MacArthur “Genius Grant”
The Vietnamese-American Zen Buddhist poet and novelist Ocean Vuong has been named one of the 2019 fellows of the MacArthur Foundation.
Buddhism: The Next 40 Years
In 2019, Lion's Roar turns 40. To mark the occasion, we're looking forward to the next 40 years of Buddhism.
Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: Deepening Our Practice and Study
In the third issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at how Western Buddhists can deepen their practice and study of Buddhism.
What is the Gohonzon?
In Nichiren Shu Buddhism, the gohonzon is a calligraphic scroll that can guide Buddhist practitioners toward enlightenment.
Review: Matters of Vital Interest
We review "Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen" by Eric Lerner.
Beyond the Upper Middle Way
Convert Buddhism has a class problem: it appeals mostly to a narrow demographic of well-off college graduates. Buddhist scholar Ann Gleig offers some class consciousness to help Buddhism drop the barriers and benefit many more people.
Restoring the Mind to Kindness
Sylvia Boorstein on how to rescue your mind when confusion overwhelms it into suffering.
How to Practice Loving-Kindness
Joanna Hardy teaches us the famed Buddhist practice of metta – offering love to ourselves and others.
Buddhism’s Next 40 Years: The Importance of Diversity
In the second issue in our 40th anniversary series, Melvin McLeod looks at the importance of diversity in the development of modern Buddhism.
Noble Black Manhood: A New Rite of Passage
Diversity is more than just representation. It’s about really meeting the needs of different communities. Pamela Ayo Yetunde suggests how Buddhism can address the mass incarceration of young black men and its terrible costs.
The Invisible Majority
The vast majority of American Buddhists are of Asian heritage, yet they are too often ignored, mispresented, and even looked down upon. Chenxing Han offers four ways we can start to heal American Buddhism.
Review: In Love with the World
Lion's Roar reviews "In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying."
Free at Last
Rima Vesely-Flad reports on Deep Time Liberation, a retreat that takes African American meditators into the heart of slavery’s past so they can free themselves from its legacy of trauma.