Buddhist writer Chadwick (Crooked Cucumber) collects vignettes from the life of Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971), an influential figure in 20th-century Zen Buddhism in this insightful appreciation. Most of ...

Lundquist, an English professor at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota, debuts with a wrenching account of the breakup of her marriage to a gay man. Lundquist met her Continue reading » ...

“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few,” wrote Japanese Master Shunryu Suzuki, who brought Zen teachings to America in the early 1960s, in his book ...

How an ambitious man built up--then nearly destroyed--the first Buddhist monastery in the U.S. How much bad can one say about a bunch of serene ascetics who sit around contemplating paradoxes like ...