Brad Warner had just drawn the Japanese characters for "monster" down the soft side of my inner arm beneath my tattooed character, "flower." Over the local beers I had just introduced him to in a ...

As a man beats a Moktak, others follow the tempo of the traditional Korean wooden percussion instrument with a steady chant. “Shin-myo jang-gu dae-da-ra-ni …” Words from the work of The Great Dharani ...

I get stressed out about being stressed out. Everywhere I turn in our crazed city, people pop brain veins, commit acts of monstrous violence, belittle people they love, short-circuit at work, jump ...

A Zen master once said: ""Embrace mindfulness. Feel the breeze, listen to leaves. It's calm in life's storm, observe thoughts ...

In the book, “Zen Sex: The Way of Making Love”, Philip Toshio Sudo introduces many to Zen master Ikkyu Sojun, who lived 1394-1481. According to the text, Ikkyu was known to frequent brothels and bars ...

Here's the press release: Courtesy The New Orleans Museum of ArtHotei's ink on paper drawing 'Sound of One Hand (late).' The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Organized ...

Bernard Glassman, an acclaimed American Buddhist teacher known for his social activism, died Nov. 4 in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He was 79. The cause was sepsis, his wife, Eve Marko, said. Other WRAL ...

Robert Baker Aitken, one of the first American masters of Zen Buddhism and a community activist, died Thursday at Straub Hospital in Honolulu. He was 93. He was the founder, leader and teacher of ...