“The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition” is the new book by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel. Published in February by Shambhala Publications, the book ...

The first time I saw a body in an open casket, I almost laughed out loud. I was a senior in high school, but it wasn’t my first experience with death. Both of my dad’s parents and his sister passed ...

I love practical advice that you can immediately apply to your life. And Zen, a school of Mahayana Buddhism, is full of practical wisdom. When I tell my friends, colleagues, and people I work with ...

One day in October 1965, poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen performed a ritual walk around Mount Tamalpais, following the Buddhist meditation practice of walking clockwise around a ...

Life will not always be easy, but with practice we can meet challenges with compassion, resilience, and skill.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper refutes the widely held view that the Zen school of East Asian Buddhism is a good example of the "denial of ritual" in the history ...