Killing the Buddha

Peter Kingsley and the dangerous dream of a spiritual elite.

A cub reporter gets on the bus with the Pakistani big boys.

After all, Buddhist monks are men too.

Scenes from a spiritual bootcamp.

Would an activists’s life have been better spent in the in the lotus position, seeking no-self?

The daughter of a damaged Vietnam veteran returns to the scene of the crime.

When you look for mystics in a war-torn land, you might find them hiding right in front of you.

For Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, it’s alright to get a little dirty, so long as you know which detergent will get your karma clean.

Thus spoke Buddha’s mother: Fine, fine, be enlightened. But would it kill you to call now and then?

What do you call yourself when names like skin can be shed?

Can Buddhists in Cambodia relearn a murdered tradition?

Growing pains and hanky panky at the San Francisco Zen Center.