On the pros and cons of seeing our dead loved ones

On going back to the basics while grieving

On clinging, suffering, and rebirth

On loving-kindness, death, and impermanence

A new column on death and dying by Margaret Meloni

Death, dying, and our place in the cosmos

Forging a new, sustainable paradigm

The year was 1993, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two years had passed since the heroic city of Leningrad was rechristened Saint Petersburg, its imperial name. Vasily Repin was a stud

In the mid-1990s, I spent a year as a volunteer at Zen Hospice Project’s (ZHP) Guest House in downtown San Francisco, helping the four resident patients one day a week. During that time, I learn

I got the upsetting news on July 7, 2013 at around 8.30 a.m. — Terror struck Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya: a series of blasts had left two monks injured.   The first thought in my mind

Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 2, January 2007.  The first time I met a Tibetan monk I couldn’t believe how ‘normal’ he

The visual traces of tantric Buddhism in Japan and China

An introduction to the Siddham script and its mystic nature