Befriending Impermanence
Asa Hershoff
2 February 2026
Asa Hershoff considers our relationship with impermanence, and how it can help us live beyond hope and fear
Early Explorers and Their Encounter with Buddhism, Part Three: Dance Insight
Joseph Houseal
9 August 2025
The early explorers treated in this three-part article represent a wide range of expertise, from painting to linguistics, dance to cartography. The 15 explorers evoked
Messengers of Mind, Part Two: Liminal Lives
Joseph Houseal
12 July 2025
Joseph Houseal digs deeper into the history of cultural explorers and the West’s early encounters with Buddhism
Messengers of Mind, Cultural Explorers and the Encounter with Buddhism, Part One: A Gallery of Explorers
Joseph Houseal
14 June 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the adventurer-scholars, mystic-wanderers, and artist-seekers behind the West’s early exposures to Buddhism
The Conflict of Tradition Versus Innovation
Asa Hershoff
7 March 2024
Asa Hershoff offers a commentary on modernism versus tradition for Buddhist practitioners
Will You Reincarnate?
Asa Hershoff
12 May 2023
Asa Hershoff shares his thoughts and perspectives on the tantric view of rebirth and liberation
Are You a Knowledge-Holder?
Asa Hershoff
28 January 2022
Knowledge and essence in the Vajrayana tradition
Why Spirituality (Sometimes) Fails
Asa Hershoff
8 July 2021
Energy and activity in tantric practice
Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 10: When Three Becomes Four
Asa Hershoff
8 October 2020
The union of three as the means toward transformation
Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 9: Dying into Elemental Light
Asa Hershoff
5 August 2020
Transformation and dissolution
Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 8: Light Body Transformations
Asa Hershoff
6 May 2020
Understanding the process and science of inner transformation
Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 6: Five Elements High and Low
Asa Hershoff
10 February 2020
Dynamic patterns of meaning and manifestation