I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department ...

Japan does have a structured waste-management system that's well-organized and effective. This system supports the cultural ...

For a brief period, Leonard Cohen was a practising Buddhist monk, therein the folk musician and poet was given a profound ...

Japanese calligraphy, or shodo, is an ancient art that blends writing with beauty. It requires years of practice and patience ...

Silence cemented our fellowship as our feet traced the granite slabs, sometimes walking by chance together in adjacent isles, then diverging to the far sides of the nested rings. The labyrinth, like ...

East Looking Back At Its West Interpreters. The traffic of ideas between East and West has always been more than ...

If you want to penetrate the mysteries of Zen, try thinking of yourself as a blueberry muffin. That’s what lay teacher Laura Jomon Martin told a small group of Zen students after a recent meditation ...

In this accessible if sometimes trite debut, Zen priest Taigu shares Buddhist wisdom for moving past difficult feelings “with greater ease and peace of mind.” The process begins, he argues, with ...

Philosophy professor Evan Thompson, who defines himself as “a good friend to Buddhism,” is also a critic of “Buddhist exceptionalism”: “the belief that ...