Translating Spirituality Into Real Life: An interview with the late Sufi master, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (Beliefnet.com)
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan died on June 17th [2004] at the age of 87 (see our online memorial). Lawrence Pintak…
Gene Smith’s Mission (BuddhaDharma)
Vol. 1, No. 1 2002 Lawrence Pintak profiles Gene Smith, the man from Ogden, Utah who single-handedly spearheaded the preservation…
Insight Meditation at 25 (Shambhala Sun)
Shambhala Sun, November 2001 The idea was almost too ridiculous to contemplate. Three twenty-something meditation teachers, who had spent most…
The Terror Koan: American Buddhists contemplate violence (Beliefnet.com)
Sept. 2001 The image is seared into our collective consciousness: Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to protest the war…
“Something Has to Change”: Blacks in American Buddhism (Shambhala Sun)
Shambhala Sun, September 2001. Lawrence Pintak tells the compelling stories of three African-American dharma teachers. He asks them why American…
Balancing Business With Buddha: More and more executives and entrepreneurs are bringing the dharma to the art of the deal (Beliefnet.com)
June 2001 The wise and moral man Shines like a fire on a hilltop Who does not hurt the flower.…
The Dharma Scribe (Beliefnet.com)
A former physician and monk from Australia named Nick Ribush could be the reason you’re reading this story. You have…
‘A Strong Voice Coming Up’: A young (and rare) woman lama talks about fear, American dharma, and the importance of ‘ripping your heart out’ (Beliefnet.com)
October 2000 Venerable Khandro Rinpoche is part of a new generation of Western-educated, English-speaking Tibetan teachers reared in exile. She…
A Share of the Soil
Worcester Magazine (2000) What would make a perfectly ordinary suburban family from suburban Boston with two jobs, two cars and…
Tibet’s Suffering: Visiting lama survived 20 years in Chinese jail
Worcester Magazine (Jan. 2000) The flight into exile of one of Tibet’s most revered religious leaders this month once more…
Satish Kumar
Worcester Magazine (1999) At the age of nine, he took vows as a Jain monk. At 18, he began preaching…
Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Prescription is Meditation (Shambhala Sun)
Shambhala Sun, Sept. 1999 From the inner city to the executive suite, in hospitals and prisons, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s meditation…
Mind at Peace, Body in Balance (Shambhala Sun)
Sept. 1999 A look at healing meditations developed by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of The Healing Power of Mind. The…