Exploring creativity and the teachings as a Serti silk painter and Tibetan language teacher

The establishment of a female monastic community in Kathmandu

The spiritual enquiries of an American Buddhist scholar

Hasta Colman recalls her childhood adventures growing up in a Buddhist community in Nova Scotia, and the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

The transformative impact of Dharma on living and on art

The second part of Sally’s spiritual journey

Sally Ember recounts her long path to Buddhism

Learning Buddhist chaplaincy at Harvard Divinity School

Giving American children a Buddhist education

At 9,000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, surrounded by long-haired hippies chanting, praying, singing, smoking marijuana, ringing bells, and waving vajras, I was born. Although my parents were

Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto   The old pond a frog jumps in kerplunk    Matsuo Basho’s (1644–94) haiku—that mind-altering frog vanishing into an ancient pond—has become so deeply sc

  “Two Buddhisms?”, the interviewer asked me.   “No”, I said, “there are as many Buddhisms as there are Buddhists”, I said. What I meant, of course, was that one’s PRACTICE of Bud

Introduction   On the January 15, 2011, I was invited to participate as one of the panel speakers in an Interfaith Forum themed ‘The Purpose of Life according to the Scriptures’ at the Lecture Hall