Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

VISHNU SRIDHARAN has worked for nonprofits dedicated to fighting poverty, promoting racial equity, and dismantling the prison–industrial complex. Now a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Southern California, his dissertation draws

THIS ISSUE’S COVER is from a project called “Venus Mansion” by Lee Sol, in which he uses 3-D rendering to juxtapose classical images with modern culture motifs, often in eye-popping pink. He attributes his fascination with color to an interest in gen

IN THE EARLY 2000s, I taught Western philosophy to Tibetan monks at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India. These monks were excited to explore new insights into questions they were already pursuing in Buddhist philosophy, and new

GUO GU: This is an important question, and one not so dissimilar from another common question, “In what timeframe can one reasonably expect to learn meditation and reach awakening?” These are difficult to answer because whatever assumptions we may br

The Fifty Verses, composed by Thich Nhat Hanh, draws upon key streams of Buddhist thought, from the Abhidharma to the later Mahayana teachings on the nature of consciousness. These verses, and in particular the final ten, can be understood as a kind

N 1940 IN NEPAL, Chittadhar Hrdaya was arrested for publishing poems in the Newari language, an act regarded as subversive by Nepal’s ruling Rana dynasty. During his subsequent five-year imprisonment, he wrote The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Tea

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