Summer 2006
Vol. 15, No. 4
on practice
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If you don't have anything nice to say . . .
profile
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Country music trailblazer Jimmie Dale Gilmore sets his dharmic insight to a Texas beat.
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Pioneering neuroscientist, renowned pianist, and inventor Dr. Manfred Clynes takes Eliot Fintushel on a tour of his enterprising world.
feature
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Anne Cushman goes undercover in the Buddhist branch of the online dating world.
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David A. Taylor tracks the elusive ginseng plant from the menacing forests of ancient China to the misty slopes of the Smoky Mountains.
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Are faith and empiricism compatible? For Thanissaro Bhikkhu, they are inseparable components of an authentic Buddhist practice.
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Tracy Cochran visits with transreligious visionary Frederick Franck at his “oasis of sanity.”
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Cultivating compost in the murky depths of a monastery toilet, Steve Krieger learns to break down his raw material, inner and outer.
sangha spotlight
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An unconventional Sri Lankan monk attracts a crowd in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
on science
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What Buddhists can learn from ants, atoms, and complexity theory
in memoriam
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Richard Gere remembers his teacher Ribur Rinpoche.
thus have i heard
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Acting with wisdom and compassion requires a steady mind.
on gardening
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Tales of an eccentric garden guru
my view
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Jorge N. Ferrer questions the Buddhist allegiance to monogamy.
editors view
reviews
insights
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Miss Burma changes her name; Happiness vision; Me, myself, and my mind; Buddha Buzz
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Finding happiness is mostly a matter of perspective.
parting words
in the news
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Alejandro Escovedo is making music again, with a little help from his friends...and acupuncturist
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dharma talk
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Uncovering the living source of Zen ethics.
