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

• Tworkov, Helen (2024). Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America. St. Martin's. .
• Tworkov, Helen (1989). Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. North Point Press. . (Expanded edition published by Kodansha in 1994.)

With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:

• In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying. Penguin Random House, 2019.
• Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism. Snow Lion, 2014.

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