Chan Magazine

The New York Chan Center publishes a quarterly magazine, the Chan Magazine. Many back issues are available online, and we link them on this page.

You may subscribe to receive the printed edition of the Chan Magazine by contacting the New York Chan Center. Subscription is free of charge, but of course donations are welcomed. Probably the easiest way to donate is to use the PayPal button on the home page of the Chan Center website, and add a comment to your donation, "for Chan Magazine".

Subsequent Issues of the Chan Magazine are available online from the Chan Center website where they also have back issues of the Chan Newsletter 1979 - 1997 available for download, with a list of titles of all past articles.

Chan Magazine Winter 2005

Cover of Chan Magazine Winter 2005

"People who have never had a taste of Chan often like to speculate about enlightenment. But lacking a clear sense of what the Dharma actually entails, they tend to delight in the exotic and cook up all kinds of strange fantasies . . . Enlightenment is not something that can be comprehended by philosophical speculation or flights of the occult imagination. Should you even be tempted to conjecture…

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Chan Magazine Autumn 2004

Chan Magazine Autumn 2004 cover

"Our world is evolving from regionalism into globalism; we have transformed our closed ethnic societies into societies characterized by multi-cultural diversity; we are moving away from nationalistic concerns toward concerns for the shared security and well-being of the entire human race... Therefore, in the twenty-first century, people who continue to engage in stirring up interracial hatred, in…

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Chan Magazine Summer 2004

Chan Magazine Summer 2004 cover

Dear disciples of the beloved Roshi Philip Kapleau:

I just received the sad news of Roshi Kapleau’s death and would like to send my condolences. He is a very dear friend of mine. Years ago he visited me at my Center in Taiwan. He also kindly invited me to visit his Center in Rochester, and wrote the preface for my book Complete Enlightenment. We shared a deep relationship between us, and I am…

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Chan Magazine Spring 2004

Chan Magazine Spring 2004 cover

"With Bantetsugu Roshi, a disciple of Harada Roshi, I attended winter-long retreats at his temple in the harsh environment of northern Japan. He was particularly scathing about my learning and studying at university. When I left him, he told me to go and teach in America. I complained that I did not know English. He said, 'Do you think Zen is taught with words? Why worry about words?'"

– Chan…

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Categories: 2004

Older issues of the Chan Magazine

Calligraphy for the character Chan

Older past issues of the Chan Magazine are also available

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