Meiro Koizumi in Measure Your Existence
A series on the artists from the exhibition
Shilpa Gupta in Measure Your Existence
A series on the artists from the exhibition
The Way of the Cosmos
Finding your place in the universe. Literally.
Tehching Hsieh in Measure Your Existence
A series on the artists from the exhibition
Impermanence Can Set Us Free
How Buddhism encourages us to embrace the instability of life
The Returned: When Death Is Not the End
In Tibetan tales and popular culture the dead have a way of coming back with a purpose
Aromatic Landscape
A scent journey
I Love You, I Love You Not
Navigating change in romantic relationships
A Manual for the Momentary: DIY Rituals from Reimagine End of Life
Step-by-step instructions toward healing, resilience, and action
A Stunning Spectacle of Astonishing Things Happening
The renowned theater and opera director Peter Sellars discusses his passion for bringing a two-thousand-year-old Buddhist sutra to the stage
Ocean View
A one-act play maps identity in a changing world
Intangible Connections Between You and Me: An Interview with Lee Mingwei
The artist reflects on the lasting impact of an early memory and his mother's gift
Sacred Threads
Why preserve art when nothing lasts forever
We Are All Steadily Heading Toward Death: Taryn Simon and Photography
An artist’s system for mapping blood, time, and narrative
Life, Interrupted
Early onset Alzheimer's forces an artist and teacher to distinguish between letting go and giving up
Buddhist Texts
Can technology help us on our spiritual quest, or are we just phoning it in?
Change and Continuity: Contemplating Impermanence
Balancing love and loss with music and meditation
Green Remains
The spiritual and secular afterlives of bodies

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