Helen Tworkov

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Helen Tworkov

Information
Born: 1943
Place of birth: New York, New York
Title(s): Author
former editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Education: Hunter College
City University of New York
Website

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Helen Tworkov (b. 1943) is a published author and the founder, one-time editor, and current Executive Director of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (the largest Buddhist publication in America).[1] Born in New York City, she did her studies at Hunter College and City University of New York. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s she traveled abroad. Tworkov has training in Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, in the past practicing with teachers like Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman.[2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Zen in America (1989, North Point Press)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Century, Douglas (1996). When `Enlightenment Needs a Minyan' (Foreword). Retrieved on 2008-01-02.
  2. ^ Farrer-Halls, Gill (2002). The Feminine Face of Buddhism. Quest Books, p. 34. ISBN 0835608212.