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Who Was Otagaki Rengetsu?

by Grace Schireson| April 11, 2019

Who Was Otagaki Rengetsu?

Grace Schireson on the life, art, and poetics of the Zen nun Otagaki Rengetsu, a woman “humbled by life’s blows as well as its beauty.”

Who Was Queen Anula?

by Bhikkhuni Sudhamma| October 22, 2018

Who Was Queen Anula?

Bhikkhuni Sudhamma traces the origins of Buddhist ordination for women to Queen Anula, Sri Lanka’s first Buddhist nun.

Ordinary Buddha

by Thich Nhat Hanh| September 2, 2016

Ordinary Buddha
Linji Zen Thich Nhat Hanh Enlightenment Commentary Buddhadharma Buddhism Lion's RoarPhoto by Christopher Lance.

Master Linji, better known in the West as Rinzai, shook up the Buddhist world by telling his students to drop their enlightenment agenda and simply be their true, ordinary selves. Thich Nhat Hanh examines Master Linji’s teachings on the “businessless person,” who has nothing to do and nowhere to go.

Ask the Teachers: I have cancer. How do I balance accepting impermanence and desiring to live?

by Lion's Roar Staff| July 28, 2015

Ask the Teachers: I have cancer. How do I balance accepting impermanence and desiring to live?
abortion, buddhadharma, lion's roar, buddhism, narayan helen liebenson, blanche hartman, tenzin wangyal rinpochePictured: Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Narayan Helen Liebenson, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Photos by Barbara Wenger, Janine Guldener, Mary Lang.

The teachers answer the question of someone unsure how to balance her understanding of impermanence with her desire to live in the face of cancer.

Profile: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

by David Swick| December 1, 2007

Profile: Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Photo by Sumi Loundon Kim.

David Swick profiles the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts.

What is Nekkhamma?

by Ajahn Munindo| December 1, 2007

What is Nekkhamma?

Nekkhamma as defined by Ajahn Munindo, a Theravada abbot of the Thai Forest Tradition.

Forum on Psychology and Buddhism

by Mark Epstein| December 1, 2007

Forum on Psychology and Buddhism

A forum on psychology and Buddhism. What they share, how they differ, and do we need both?

Who Was Yeshe Tsogyal?

by Holly Gayley| December 1, 2007

Who Was Yeshe Tsogyal?

Holly Gayley discusses the power of Padmasambhava’s foremost disciple and consort, Yeshe Tsogyal, and the life of one of her modern emanations.

To Women of the Way

by Beata Grant| December 1, 2007

To Women of the Way

In these seventeenth-century poems, women Chan teachers and senior students pay homage to the women who taught and inspired them.

Who Was Miaozong?

by Miriam Levering| December 1, 2007

Who Was Miaozong?

Miriam Levering on the life of Miaozong, a laywoman turned abbess who stood her ground in dharma battles with some of the great Chan masters of her day.

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