Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

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WILLA BLYTHE BAKER is the founder and spiritual codirector of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston and Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, New Hampshire. She holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard University and was a visiting lecturer in B

THERE IS NO BUDDHISM without sangha. At the foundation of all of it, we have buddha, dharma, and sangha—the three things that hold up all the rest. We study the rest, practice the rest, try to embody the rest, but in these three, we take refuge. We c

WHEN DEATH CEASES to be an abstraction and becomes an inevitability, rumination upon its imminence requires a rare act of courage. Such is the exquisite fortitude exhibited by the late scholar C. W. Huntington Jr. in his posthumously published What I

Ananda: “Venerable sir, this is half of the spiritual life, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship.” The Buddha: “Not so, Ananda! Not so! This is the entire spiritual life.” From the Upaddha Sutta, translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi

BREESHIA WADE: The dharma provides tools through the eightfold path and the paramitas to help guide us into translating internal acceptance into concrete actions. During clinical pastoral education, chaplains utilize the action-reflection-action mode