David McMahan is professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. In recent years he has offered the Buddhist Studies community a more
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)* is a serious neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive weakness and a huge psychological impact on both patients and their carers.
Recently, I was sitting on a train coming back home from Sydney Central and couldn’t help but overhear a conversation between a teenaged girl and
I’ve known people who go to a single meditation retreat and when they return home they start sitting an hour in the morning and an
For more than 21 years, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has traveled the world teaching about the innermost nature of mind as understood by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a revered Karma Kagyu and Nyingma master. Born in 1975, the son of renowned meditation master Tulku Uryen Rinpoche, he received
When it comes to developing the fifth parami of viriya—the perfection of effort or energy—the instructions seem simple: the Buddha said to “abandon the unwholesome” and to “develop
In January this year, celebrity monk Venerable Matthieu Ricard was touted by many media outlets, including mainstream publications like The Independent, as being the “happiest person
A fuzzy-furred gibbon seated on a rugged boulder reaches an arm out over a rushing river and tries to scoop up the reflection of the
In October 2015, Mindful Nation UK—a milestone policy document seeking to address mental health concerns at a national level through the application of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs)—was
There was a time when Lama Sangak Yeshe Tsomo was bad at meditating. For years, she had tried to meditate daily without formal instruction. “I
Walking along the prairie cliffs north of Santa Cruz I come across a whale skeleton, stark unexpected sight, exhibit of the Marine Discovery Center. I
