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    Featured Contributors Spring 2013 Paid Member

    Brent Huffman is a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor at Northwestern University. His article “The Fate of Mes Aynak” (page 64), chronicles the fate of an ancient Buddhist city in Afghanistan that sits above a copper mine worth billions. Huffman first traveled to Mes Aynak in the summer of 2011 to document the ancient city before its imminent destruction by Chinese mining companies. “I quickly fell in love with this miraculous and awe-inspiring place,” Huffman says, “so in addition to making the film, I began a campaign to save the site.” Later that year, Huffman partnered with the Alliance for the Restoration of Cultural Heritage (ARCH) to spread awareness about the destruction of Mes Aynak.   More »
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    Featured Contributors Winter 2012 Paid Member

    Dick Allen (“After a heavy, clinging snow”) is the current poet laureate of Connecticut, a position he’ll hold until 2015. Allen has studied Buddhism for over 50 years, since meeting Alan Watts one quiet autumn afternoon at Syracuse University, where Allen took the country’s first undergraduate credit course in Zen Buddhism in 1960. Allen is most drawn to “crazy Zen,” and many of his Buddhist poems are written, he says, to “Americanize Buddhism and Zen Buddhism through the use of American landscapes, American icons like Coca-Cola, and Apple computers placed alongside cloudy mountains and brooms sweeping Buddhist temple floors.” More »
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    Featured Contributors Fall 2012 Paid Member

    Heather Cox, whose artwork appears in “The Fundamental Ambiguity of Being Human” lives and works in New York City. Cox’s art often centers on precisely crafted objects that involve repetition and shifting scale. She uses a variety of materials—paper, pins, erasers, even aspirin and frosting—to address issues of visibility, discovery, and metamorphosis. Each piece invites a closer look. “The viewer’s physical approach is often accompanied by curiosity, confusion, and moments of recognition,” Cox says. “My work is designed to act as a catalyst for these momentary thresholds.” More »
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    STEPHEN BATCHELOR, a frequent contributor to Tricycle, is the author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and, most recently, Verses from the Center, a translation of Nagarjuna's work on emptiness. He is the co-founder of Sharpham College in Devon, England, and after serving as its director for four years, Stephen and his wife, Martine, recently moved to Southwest France. JAN WILLIS became a student of Tibetan lama Thubten Yeshe in 1969 and has studied Buddhism for over thirty years. A professor of religion at Wesleyan University, she is the editor of Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet and the author of Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition. When not traveling she resides in Middletown, Connecticut. More »
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    Featured Contributors Summer 2012 Paid Member

    Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei, a Soto priest and dharma successor to Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, writes candidly about confronting his own anger and helping others handle theirs in “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger.” He describes his method for defusing anger as “an inventive psychological process” combined with traditional zazen. A Buddhist practitioner for 30 years, Shuzen founded Soji Zen Center in Landsdowne, Pennsylvania, in 2005. In addition to teaching Buddhist philosophy, Zen meditation, and other contemplative techniques, the center offers dharma talks, retreats, workshops, and a weekly study group. More »
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    Chaco Terada, whose photographs appear in “Zen and the Art,” began practicing calligraphy as a four-year-old child in Japan. She learned by observing her father, Soseki Terada, a master calligrapher, and copying his work. More »