Part 3 of a series on applied Buddhism for fully experiencing the end of our pets' lives

2016's SPECIAL ISSUE on Chinese Buddhism in different cultures and contexts!

Establishing the Po Lam nunnery in Chilliwack

Coping with change through Buddhist mindfulness

Finding freedom in accepting the certainty of death

The shared experience of life and death

Meditations on the final milestone of our life

There are many statements in Buddhist literature that make pleasure sound like something we should totally avoid. It might take some careful reading to recognize that the threat isn’t pleasure itself,

In the mid-1990s, I spent a year as a volunteer at Zen Hospice Project’s (ZHP) Guest House in downtown San Francisco, helping the four resident patients one day a week. During that time, I learn

Rick was a hardscrabble kid from Indiana who came to Zen Hospice Project’s (ZHP) four-patient guest house in downtown San Francisco with AIDS. He was not yet 20. I’d been volunteering

The vision of Buddhism as a faith for the young and the living (rather than one needed only at death) has spread throughout the Sinophone world, radiating primarily from Taiwanese hubs like Fo Guang S

Being present with terminally ill people will teach you a lot. It’s a powerful mindfulness practice to maintain an accepting awareness of the sights, sounds, smells and emotions that arise. Many

When I was a child, my father died in a car accident. I learned about loss from an early age, that it could be both painful and joyful. I was blessed with a mother who taught me how to take care of su