New Chan Forum
In 1990 the Bristol Chan Group founded a journal called the 'New Chan Forum'. The Western Chan Fellowship has now taken over responsibility for this publication.
Content varies considerably from issue to issue, but typically includes Dharma talks, reports on their meditation and retreat experiences written by participants, comment on contemporary Zen and Buddhism, pictures, poetry, etc.
Copies of the full text of most issues are available to download from here. For copyright and other reasons some articles may sometimes be removed from the electronic version, and pictures are not included with the older issues, but if you wish you may write to the distributor to buy the paper version.
Published twice or three times a year, back copies, if still in print, are available from our Membership Secretary, price £4.00 each or £12.00 for a subscription of three issues.
- Issue 1 20kb
- Issue 2 44kb
- Issue 3 45kb
- Issue 4 68kb
- Issue 5 86kb
- Issue 6 92kb
- Issue 7 104kb
- Issue 8 56kb
- Issue 9 90kb
- Issue 10 90kb
- Issue 11 87kb
- Issue 11 (supplement) 63kb
- Issue 12 73kb
- Issue 13 120kb
- Issue 14 as pdf 1006kb
- Issue 15 20kb. (NB Most of the text of NCF15 is not included in this file. This is for copyright reasons since it has subsequently been republished as part of the text of the book Illuminating Silence)
- Issue 16 as text 120kb
- Issue 16 as html 200kb
- Issue 17 as pdf 243kb
- Issue 18 as pdf 288kb
- Issue 19 as pdf 1091kb
- Issue 20 as pdf 1040kb
- Issue 21 as pdf 846kb
- Issue 22 as pdf 697kb
- Issue 23 as pdf 602kb
- Issue 24 as pdf 518kb
- Issue 25 as pdf 614kb
- Issue 26 as pdf 649kb
- Issue 27 as pdf 342kb
- Issue 28 as pdf 241kb
- Issue 29 as pdf 675kb
- Issue 30 as pdf 1687kb
- Issue 31 as pdf 8803kb
- Issue 32 as pdf 3547kb
- Issue 33 as pdf 615kb
- Issue 34 as pdf 2379kb
- Issue 35 as pdf 1686kb
- Issue 36 as pdf 1631kb
- Issue 37 as pdf 652kb
New Chan Forum Issue 37 Spring 2008 is the current issue.
Articles, pictures, poems, etc. for consideration for inclusion in future issues of New Chan Forum may be emailed to the WCF editorial at editor(at)westernchanfellowship.org
Whilst we offer this online journal free of charge the WCF is a registered charity and we appreciate donations towards our costs and to support our retreat programme, our publishing of free Dharma materials, and our other activities. Please visit the Donations Page.
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