How to Be a Bodhisattva; Awakening Through Audre Lorde; The History of Pure Land Buddhism

 

05.10.2022

How to Be a Bodhisattva It may seem like an unattainable ideal, but you can start right now as a bodhisattva-in-training. All you need is the aspiration to put others first and some inspiration from helpful guides like the Buddhist teachers found here.

Awakening Through Audre Lorde Leslie Booker, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, and Rima Vesely-Flad explore how the life and work of the Black, feminist, lesbian poet Audre Lorde serves as a gateway to the dharma and speaks to Buddhist practitioners.

The History of Pure Land Buddhism Pure Land is both a distinct school of Buddhism that developed in Japan and, says Aaron Proffitt, a cornerstone of the whole Mahayana tradition.

When Sadness Rages Like Fire Pema Khandro Rinpoche shares the life of the Tibetan yogi Shabkar, whose practice and teachings were inseparable from loss and grief. From the Fall 2020 issue of Buddhadharma.

Lion’s Roar is hiring an Associate Editor Lion’s Roar is looking for an associate editor with a focus on Asian American Buddhist voices, views, achievements, and challenges.

My Flight From the Real Pico Iyer thought he would find what is truly real by going off to a monastery, but he was really fleeing it. Dropping his spiritual romaticism, he found it in ordinary life.

New for Subscribers: “Deep Dive Into Tonglen” Ebook This ebook available exclusively to Lion’s Roar subscribers explores the an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion: tonglen meditation. In this helpful guide, you’ll find two different instructions for tonglen meditation, as well as a personal accounts of how this practice can help us to strengthen our inherent capacity for compassion.