Nelson Foster

Sep 19, 2024 | tricycle.org | Nelson Foster

A few years ago, I collected fourteen translations of the Four Infinite Vows, a brief verse of commitment typically recited every day in Zen centers, temples, sitting groups, and homes as well as in other Mahayana Buddhist settings.

Aug 10, 2024 | tricycle.org | Rebecca Wilson |Eliot Weinberger |Kusala Bhikshu |Nelson Foster

Urban Dharma: 20 Years of Buddhist Stories from an L.A. City Monkby Kusala Bhikshu and Rebecca WilsonBlack Boat Media, April 2024, 229 pp., $17.00, paperKusala Bhikshu’s colorful account covers twenty years of “doing Buddhism rather than being Buddhism.” Kusala travels around Los Angeles by motorcycle and serves as a chaplain at a prison, a juvenile detention camp, and a hospital. He is also a chaplain for an Orange County police department.