The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...

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The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...

Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the United ...