Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

Legend has it that when Avalokiteshvara, who had vowed to save all beings from samsara, reached out to everyone who needed help at once, her two arms shattered from the strain. Amitabha, seeing Avalokiteshvara’s plight, then provided her with a thous

JAN WILLIS is Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University as well as a visiting professor at Agnes Scott College. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades, and has taught courses in B

WHEN I FIRST took up Buddhist practice, I didn’t know anything about the paramitas—the transcendences, the crossingsover, the perfections, whatever we want to call them. I didn’t know much about any of it, honestly, but I knew for sure that I wanted

MYOKEI CAINE-BARRETT: As a Nichiren Buddhist, I rely on the teachings of the Buddha in the Lotus Sutra and also those of Nichiren Shonin, who rejected the distinction between buddhas and human beings. In “On Attaining Buddhahood,” he wrote, “When del

BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU (1906–1993), one of Thailand’s most revered monks of the twentieth century, wants us all to be problem solvers. In an edited series of his lectures recently published as Seeing with the Eye of Dhamma: The Comprehensive Teaching of

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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere. —Thich Nhat Hanh From the poem “Walking Meditation” in Call Me by My True Names (Parallax Press) ■

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