Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

HAD SOMEONE TOLD Susan O’Connell, when she started her Zen journey over thirty years ago, that one day the San Francisco Zen Center would be a partner in a retirement community, she would have politely questioned their sanity. And yet today that very

LAMA WILLA MILLER is the founder and spiritual director of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston as well as its retreat center, Wonder-well Mountain Refuge, in Springfield, New Hampshire. She is an authorized teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition,

After studying archaeology, anthropology, and art history at university, British artist Antony Gormley (page 20) spent three years in India, where he studied meditation and at one point considered becoming a Buddhist monk. But his path instead took h

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Dear White People (including myself), It rips my heart out that I have had to craft yet another vapid statement about an awful, heartrending crisis showcasing our failure as white people. As Black people die, we white people make platitudes from our

OREN JAY SOFER: The Buddha’s teaching is fundamentally hopeful. It affirms that there is a reliable way to release ourselves from suffering, to protect other beings, mitigate harm, and build a better world. I suffered from chronic illness for a few y

May those who are in danger of being threatened or killed by kings, thieves, or scoundrels, who are troubled by hundreds of different fears, may all those beings who are oppressed by the advent of troubles be delivered from those hundreds of extreme

Sometimes hope can come in the form of a good story. Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking offer just that in The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire (Oxford), though they are careful to show that this is nei

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When both myself and othersare similar in what we wish to be happy,what is so special about me? Why do I strive for my happiness alone?And when both myself and othersare similar in that we do not wish to suffer,what is so special about me? Why do I p