Saint Petersburg’s only Vajrayana temple stands proudly by the northern bank of the chilly Greater Nevka, at the corner of Primorsky Prospect-Maritime Avenue and Lipovaya Alley. Datsan
Just over 20 years ago, Leslie Freilich left southern California to work in Dharamsala, India, as an economic development volunteer for Tibetan refugees. She was
I arrived in Songgwangsa (one of the oldest Seon, or Zen, temples in South Korea) in 1975 on the first day of the biggest ceremony of
This is the second article in our series “Buddhist Voices from the Land of Rivers.” Here, John Cannon converses with Venerable Buddhadatta from Wonmyung Meditation
What would the practice of metta look like if we applied it to eating? The cultivation of an attitude of unconditional friendliness, or metta practice,
Has there ever been a civilization that invented a script, only to deliberately conceal its contents and meaning? This is precisely the mystery of the
The name “Eldrick Tont Woods” probably doesn’t ring a bell in anyone’s mind, even though it’s the given name of a modern-day legend. Add in a
A Brief History of the Formation of the Land of Bliss According to the Infinite Life Sutra, in the era of Lokeshvararaja Tathagata, there was once
The Polish historian Isaac Deutscher offered a famous analogy for the creation of the Israeli nation: a Jewish man leaps from a burning building and
I almost never woke up to the five o’clock gong—the first gong of the day in a life, if not ruled by the gong, then
“Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones—all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake.
Two Kinds of Nature As a Pure Land, the nature of the Land of Bliss is pure in every sense of the word. As declared by
