BACK ISSUES OF TURNING WHEEL
The following is a list of the last four years of Turning Wheel. Copies are $7 each, postpaid from the BPF national office ($5 each, postpaid for orders of 2 or more, up to ten, and $3 each for orders of more than 10.)
Winter 1995: Hope—Why We Keep on Trying, Tenshin Reb Anderson on the Path of Peace, Progress—Is It Killing Us? Helena Norberg-Hodge & Andrew Harvey talk about spiritual and economic revolution.
Spring 1995: Suffering: Poets, prisoners, Vietnam vets, people with AIDS, therapists, activists, insomniacs, and Cheri Huber speak.
Summer 1995: Consumerism: Creating edible schoolyards, Hoarding chocolate in the monastery, Eating marmot in Mongolia, Living with Chemical Sensitivity. Plus: Robert Aitken on Shunning Sexual Misconduct, Portraits from Cambodia.
Fall 1995: Fundamentalism: Who’s Calling Who “Fundamentalist”? The Narrowed Mind, Fundamentalists I Have Known and Loved, Report from a Cult Survivor. Plus: Albanian Resistors in Serbia, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Statement upon Release from House Arrest.
Winter 1996: Family—What Is it?: Extended and Distended Family, Practicing with Children, Caring for Aging Parents.
Spring 1996: Sexual Misconduct—Who’s Hurting Whom? Suing the Buddha, Sexual Addiction or Sexual Harassment? Buddhist Self Defense, How You Can Prevent Sexual Misconduct. Jan Chozen Bays, Jarvis Masters, Tofu Roshi, and more.
Summer 1996: Buddhist Activism Around the World—Friends report from Thailand, Cambodia, Zaire, Wales, India, Laos. Plus: Listening Beyond Listening, Evening on the Prison Yard.
Winter 1997: A riveting issue on Work: sorting eggs, lawyering, entering data, building stone walls, saving lives. Plus: Interview with a Buddhist Army Officer.
Spring 1997: In Praise of Water. Helena Norberg-Hodge on Globalization, poems from Gary Snyder, Leslie Scalapino, and more.
Summer 1997: Hatred—in Prison, on the Internet, in Bosnia, in Divorce, at Birkenau, in Our Hearts. Studs Terkel interviews “C.P.” Ellis on Getting out of the Klan, Jarvis Masters on The Lesser of Two Evils, and more.
Fall 1997: Buddhists in the City. Plus H.H. The Dalai Lama talks with gay and lesbian Buddhists.
Winter 1998: Health Care—in the inner city on the Burma border, in a small midwestern town. Also: corporate medicine, Prozac, chronic illness, Tofu Roshi’s health quiz. Plus Darlene Cohen on alleviating suffering, and poetry from Rick Fields.
Spring 1998: Weapons—Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear Weapons, Gun Victims on Gun Control, Bombs into Bells.
Fall 1998: Back to School Issue! Transforming Education in the Public School, the Monastery, the Family, the University, the Reform School, the Garden, by Norman Fischer, Lewis Richmond, and others. Poetry from an anonymous Oakland teacher.
Winter 1999: The Great Matter of Life and Death: Buddhist Perspectives on the Death Penalty—Voices of Death Row Inmates and Victims’ Families, Wrongful Convictions, Racism and Capital Punishment, Reconciliation.
Spring 1999: Buddhist Feminism: Rita Gross, Sandy Boucher, Dogen on Lust, Putting Women on the Altar, Transgendered Dharma, Wicca Zen, New Books by Buddhist Women.
Summer 1999: After the execution… what then? Buddhist Views on: Yugoslavia, Dharma Transmission, Diversity in Our Sanghas. Norman Fischer on Difference and Dharma, interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman on Entrustment.
Summer 2000: Buddhists on Human Rights. Articles on torture, refugees and immigrant policy plus an interview with Bo Lozoff.
Fall 2000: Buddhists of Asian Descent in the USA—Interview with Kenneth Tanaka. Voices from Cambodian, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese American Communities. Special section on Art and Activism.
Winter 2001: Issue on Getting Old. Interview with Robert Aitken Roshi. Articles on aging and taking care of aging parents by Maylie Scott, Darlene Cohen, Joanna Macy and others. Special Report: Sitting in the Dragon’s Lair at Los Alamos.
Spring 2001: Buddhism in Las Américas. Camotes and Green Tea: Postcards from a Mexican Sangha. Articles in Español. Fighting for Justice in Chiapas. Voices from Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, the U.S. and more.
Summer 2001: Issue on Karma. The Law of Cause and Effect and: Activism, Jury Duty, Living on Death Row, Building the Biggest Buddha Statue in the World. Articles by Jarvis Jay Masters and Melody Ermachild Chavis. Remembering Maylie Scott.
Fall 2001: OUT OF PRINT: Issue on Reconciliation. Robert Aitken on Restorative Justice in Hawai’i. Norman Fischer on Impossible Possibilities. Special section commemorating Maylie Scott.
Winter 2002: Vowing Peace in an Age of War—Buddhists Respond to 9/11: Jack Kornfield, Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Robert Thurman, and others. Plus: Practical Tools for Troubled Times & Interview with a Muslim Imam.
Spring 2002: Buddhists Consider Medical Ethics: Mental Health, Opiates, Gene Patents, and the Four Noble truths of Public Health. Plus Keeping Our Peace Activism Alive.
Summer 2002: Art & Activisim: Poetry in Prison, Music as Healer. The World Wheel: Sacred Art by an Itinerant Sculptor. The Wargasm Wall: Public Art as Protest.
Fall 2002: Youth & Buddhist Activism: 5 Young Buddhists Get Passionate About Liberation. Flamewalkers Walk Their Talk. Hip Hop Poetry. Plus David Hartsough & Joanna Macy on the Nonviolent Peaceforce.
Winter 2002-2003: Activist Nuns & Monks. Plus Robert Aitken on Grassroots Organizing,, Taigen Dan Leighton on Putting the Precepts to Work, and Paul Haller on Northern Island.
Spring 2003: Reports from Iraq. Plus Buddhist Teachers on Becoming a Spiritual Warrior.
Summer 2003: Black Dharma: Alice Walker, Charles Johnson, Jan Willis and other voices of African American practitioners.
Fall 2003: Freedom & Confinement: Jarvis Jay Masters, Sulak Sivaraksa, Lew Richmond. Plus Fall Book Review Bonanza.
Winter 2003-2004: Food from the Ground Up. Articles on compulsive eating, vegetarianism, organic farming, fasting, food guilt, resources on sustainable food production, plus recipe for Georgia Prison Pocket.
Spring 2004: Bearing Witness: On the West Bank, In Colombia. Pema Chodron on Practicing Peace in Times of War. Plus a bonus section: Definitive Bibliography on Socially Engaged Buddhism.
Summer 2004: Technology & Mind: Robert Aitken Finds Hope in Human Power, Tofu Roshi Holds Forth on Answering Machines.
Fall 2004: Dharma & Democracy: Dennis Kucinich, Taigen Leighton, and Others on Joining Spirituality and Politics. Plus Jan Chozen Bays on Jizos for Peace.
Winter 2004: Refuge & Shelter: Where do we find it? At “Home,” In a Monastery, On a Peace Walk, In a Refugee Camp, In the Dharma, On the Street, In Co-Housing.
Spring 2005: Sitting With Pain, Practicing with Disability, Nonviolent Communication in Sri Lanka, “Election Sesshin” in Oregon.
Summer 2005: Crossing Borders: Race, Gender, Culture, Nation, Age Walls, Cell Doors, Barbed Wire Fences. Jarvis Jay Masters, plus Interview with Yessenia Merlos-Hercules.
Fall 2005: Buddhas Among Us. Thubten Chödrön, Jiko Linda Cutts, Choyin Rangdrol, and others.
Winter 2005: Disarmament: Nuclear Weapons, Depleted Uranium, Martial Arts, Gang Violence, Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Peace Initiatives, Disarming Ourselves, Plus: Melody Ermachild Chavis “From Death Row.”
Spring 2006: Personal Odysseys: Facing Loneliness, Receiving a New Liver, Grieving an M.I.A. Father. Plus: Jarvis Jay Masters on Keeping Buddhist Vows in Prison.
Summer 2006: Interfaith Dialogue: Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims—Creating Unity, Exploring Diversity.
Fall/Winter 2006: A double issue $8.00 each ($7.00 postpaid for orders of two or more.) A Call to Action: A Tribute to Robert Aitken. Guest Edited by Aitken Roshi. Articles by Thich Nhat Hanh, Robert Thurman, Joanna Macy, Taigen Leighton, Ven. Suhita Dharma, Melody Ermachild Chavis, David Loy, and many, many others.
Spring 2007: Building Alliances: Swan Keyes, Toni Lester, Vanissar Tarakali, Paul Kivel, Patricia Wong Hall, and others on building alliances to confront racism.