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    Contributors Winter 2003 Paid Member

    A veteran environmental journalist, Lisa Jones knew about Michael Soulé the "father of conservation biology" long before she knew about Michael Soulé the Buddhist ("The Buckshot Bodhisattva"). But now Jones and Soulé are both members of the same sangha in tiny Paonia, Colorado, where Jones buys the meat she eats from local ranchers, and Soulé retreats into the hills to hunt game for himself—and in his view, to restore ecological balance. "There's nothing pious or politically correct about Michael," Jones says; "he applies the same kind of boundary-busting thinking to his spiritual practice that he applies to science and environmental activism." More »
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    Contributors Spring 2010 Paid Member

    KHENPO TSÜLTRIM GYAMTSO is a Buddhist master who trained extensively with yogis living in the remote monasteries and caves of Tibet. In 1959, local nuns asked him for protection from the invading Communists, and he led them to safety in Bhutan. In 1977, he began teaching worldwide about the path of wisdom and compassion, which he continued to do for the next thirty years. More »
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    Contributors Spring 2005 Paid Member

    Robert Beer's article on the history of thangka painting appears here. He states: "So many people have told me how they were initially drawn to the Buddhist teachings through the iconic beauty and mystery of its art. More »
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    Contributors Fall 2005 Paid Member

    Contributing editor Joan Duncan Oliver has spent the past year immersed in the subject of happiness, first to write a book—Happiness: How to Find It and Keep It—and then to edit a special section for this issue on happiness. Is she happier as a result? "Hard to say. More »
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    Contributors Winter 2005 Paid Member

    Rafi Zabor, whose new book, I, Wabenzi, is excerpted in this issue ("Too Much,"), writes: "The opening of I, Wabenzi was the first aesthetically successful, living thing I was able to write several years into the aftermath of my parents' deaths, in 1985 and '86. More »
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    B. Alan Wallace first learned about shamatha meditation in 1972. In “Within You Without You,” Wallace emphasizes the need for this “contemplative technology” in order to fully realize the Buddha’s teachings. The president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Wallace teaches Buddhist theory and practice worldwide and will soon lead a series of eight-week shamatha retreats in Phuket, Thailand. He is the author of many books, including “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity.” More »