The Role of Mindfulness of the Breath in Meditation Traditions
Buu Nguyen
26 June 2025
An introduction to the foundational role of watching the breath on the contemplative path in the Mahayana tradition
Book Review: The Intimate Way of Zen by James Ishmael Ford
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
6 November 2024
Nachaya Campbell-Allen explores the wisdom contained within a charming new book from Zen priest James Ishmael Ford
What Is Truth? A Creative Misreading of Zen Kōans
Gereon Kopf
15 February 2024
A meditation on the way that Zen koans point out our discursive mind’s inability to get at certain truths
Book Review: Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers
Raymond Lam
9 June 2023
Hozan Alan Senauke’s new book on 30 luminaries of the Zen tradition in Western Buddhism is based on the koanic idea of turning words
Book Review: The Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching
Nachaya Campbell-Allen
22 May 2023
A doorway to the wisdom of Chan patriarch Dahui Zonggao
The Buddha’s Wondrous Teachings
Jacqueline Kramer
3 November 2022
A reflection on gratitude for the profound wisdom of the Buddhadharma
Activism Is Dharma
Satya Robyn
18 January 2022
Finding balance as an activist committed to change, both internally and in the world
Book Review: Steven Heine’s Dogen
Nina Müller
21 December 2021
A scholar brings us the life and context of one of Zen’s greatest figures
Book Review: Dosho Port’s Translation of The Record of Empty Hall
Nina Müller
12 July 2021
An American Zen teacher brings koan practice to the modern world
Prolific Translator of Buddhist Texts Thomas Cleary Dies Aged 72
Justin Whitaker
2 July 2021
Cleary made numerous classic texts available in English for…
The Ox Herder’s Diary
John Harvey Negru
29 May 2021
The transmission and transformation of Zen in…
The Zen Masters of the Rinzai Tradition
Gereon Kopf
24 December 2020
Beginning a series of essays on the Zen masters of Japan