Helen Tworkov is founding editor of '' Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'', the first and only independent Buddhist magazine, and author of ''Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers'' (North Point Press, 1989; Kodansha, 1994). She first encountered Buddhism in Asia in the 1960s and has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. Since 2006 she has been a student of the

Kagyu The ''Kagyu'' school, also transliterated as ''Kagyü'', or ''Kagyud'' (), which translates to "Oral Lineage" or "Whispered Transmission" school, is one of the main schools (''chos lugs'') of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan (or Himalayan) Buddhism. ...

and

Nyingma Nyingma (, ), also referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Nyingma school was founded by PadmasambhavaClaude Arpi, ''A Glimpse of the History of Tibet'', Dharamsala: Tibet Museum, 2013. ...

Tibetan master

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Tibet: ཡོངས་དགེ་མི་འགྱུར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། Wylie transliteration, Wylie: yongs dge mi 'gyur rin po che) is a Tibetan Nepali teacher and master of the Karma Kagyu and Nying ...

, and has most recently assisted him in the writing of ''In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying'', .

Biography

Helen Tworkov, who became Buddhist, is the editor of Tricycle.Mary T. Rourke
Zen, USA
FEB. 18, 1997

Bibliography

* Tworkov, Helen (2024). ''Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America''. St. Martin's. . * Tworkov, Helen (1989). ''Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers''. North Point Press. . (Expanded edition published by Kodansha in 1994.) With

: * ''In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying''. Penguin Random House, 2019. * ''Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism''. Snow Lion, 2014.

References

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