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Meiro Koizumi in Measure Your ExistenceA series on the artists from the exhibitionContemporary Art Forms
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Impermanence Can Set Us FreeHow Buddhism encourages us to embrace the instability of lifeScholarly PerspectivesBuddhismMagazine
The Returned: When Death Is Not the EndIn Tibetan tales and popular culture the dead have a way of coming back with a purposePop CultureBuddhismMagazine
I Love You, I Love You NotNavigating change in romantic relationshipsRelationshipsPersonal PerspectivesMagazine
A Manual for the Momentary: DIY Rituals from Reimagine End of LifeStep-by-step instructions toward healing, resilience, and actionEnvironmentActivismHealingHow-tosMagazine
A Stunning Spectacle of Astonishing Things HappeningThe renowned theater and opera director Peter Sellars discusses his passion for bringing a two-thousand-year-old Buddhist sutra to the stageFemale PowerBuddhismContemporary Art FormsInterviewsMagazine
Ocean ViewA one-act play maps identity in a changing worldRelationshipsCreative WritingContemporary Himalayan LifeMagazine
Intangible Connections Between You and Me: An Interview with Lee MingweiThe artist reflects on the lasting impact of an early memory and his mother's giftContemporary Art FormsInterviewsMagazine
Sacred ThreadsWhy preserve art when nothing lasts foreverBuddhismTraditional Himalayan ArtContemporary Art FormsMagazine
We Are All Steadily Heading Toward Death: Taryn Simon and PhotographyAn artist’s system for mapping blood, time, and narrativePhotographyContemporary Art FormsMagazine
Life, InterruptedEarly onset Alzheimer's forces an artist and teacher to distinguish between letting go and giving upPersonal PerspectivesMagazine
Buddhist TextsCan technology help us on our spiritual quest, or are we just phoning it in?MindfulnessTechnologyMagazine
Change and Continuity: Contemplating ImpermanenceBalancing love and loss with music and meditationHealingHow-tosCreative WritingMusicMagazine
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