Adapting to the West I keep coming back to this question—not just how Buddhism is showing up in the West, but what it's becoming as it does. Because something real is happening here. You can feel it. A 2,500-year-old tradition moving through a culture that values [...]

Cultural Challenges As Buddhism continues to take root in the West, practitioners are faced with an important question: how can ancient teachings remain authentic while also becoming accessible within a different cultural landscape? Ani Lodro reflects on the gap between Tibetan Buddhist traditions and the psychological [...]

Limitations of Secular Meditation Secular meditation can offer a meaningful entry point into greater calm, focus, and self-awareness. Yet the practitioners in this theme question what may be lost when meditation is separated from the ethical teachings, relationships, and deeper purpose of the Buddhist path. Lisa [...]

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Set in Crestone, Colorado, beneath the wide sky of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Vajra Vidya feels inseparable from its environment. The high desert silence, the wind moving through grasses, the steady presence of the mountains—everything participates in the practice.

Great Vow is part of the Zen Community of Oregon, rooted in the White Plum lineage, a stream of practice flowing from Japanese Zen master Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, carried forward by his successors, and kept alive here through the guidance of Chozen Bays Roshi and Hogen Bays Roshi.

The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas is in western Montana’s spectacular Jocko Valley, just north of Missoula. Nestled in a peaceful valley in the land of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, near Glacier National Park and medicinal hot springs.