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Dharma Dictionary - Yogacara

Spring Issue 2004

Features

What's the Meaning of This?
Robert Aitken Roshi on "The Meaning of the Ancestor's Coming from the West."

Quick! Who Can Save This Cat?
"Nanchuan Cuts the Cat," that most controversial of koans, inspires a wide-ranging teaching by Zoketsu Norman Fischer.

Pure Attention
A conversation with the outspoken vipassana teacher S.N. Goenka.

Forum: Do Buddhists Pray?
A panel discussion on the meaning of prayer in a non-theistic religion, with Mark Unno, Rev. Shohaku Okumura, Sarah Harding and Bhante Madawala Seelawimala.

Mother of Light
Amy Schmidt and Sara Jenkins tell the inspiring story of Dipa Ma, known as "the patron saint of householders."

The Three Bodies of Enlightenment
A teaching on the three kayas by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Facing the Mirror
Ayya Khema on shifting the focus from others' faults to our own.

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