Helen Tworkov Explained

Helen Tworkov
Birth Place:New York, New York
Religion:Buddhism
Author
former editor of
Education:Hunter College
City University of New York

Helen Tworkov is founding editor of ,[1] 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 and Nyingma Tibetan master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, 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.[2]

Bibliography

With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:

Notes and References

  1. Dinkel, Sallie (1994) "In With the Om Crowd", New York Magazine, June 6, 1994, pp. 30-33. Retrieved August 10, 2014
  2. Mary T. Rourke, Zen, USA, FEB. 18, 1997