Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

PEMA KHANDRO RINPOCHE is a lineage holder in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as one of the few Westerners recognized and enthroned as a tulku. She is the founder of the nonprofit organization Ngakpa International, and re

In “The Body Object Series” (pages 66, 72, and 78) ANN HAMILTON takes up inanimate objects and joins them to the body, changing both their function and how we relate to them psychologically. Known for her large-scale multimedia installations—often su

KEIRYU LIÊN SHUTT: I’ve heard it said by Zen teachers that the function of the mind is to secrete thoughts. From that perspective, “to rest in nonconceptual, open, ‘don’t know’ mind” isn’t so much to stop or transcend thinking as to simply let though

THESE WORDS ARE HERE because of Aaron, known to many as the Angry Asian Buddhist. He forged the path for their publication in this Buddhist journal, creating a place for them in the wider public discourse on Buddhism in the West. Blogging at Dharma F

The second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna had it out for anyone addicted to logic. He recognized logic’s importance in the context of philosophical discourse but observed that many of his non-Buddhist contemporaries wrongly believed in

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