Helen Tworkov

Helen Tworkov
Personal
Born 1943 (age 7273)
New York, New York
Senior posting
Title Author
former editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Helen Tworkov is founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,[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 Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism, ISBN 978-1-61180-121-7 from Shambhala Publications under its Snow Lion imprint.

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  1. Dinkel, Sallie (1994) "In With the Om Crown", New York Magazine, June 6, 1994, pp. 30-33. Retrieved August 10, 2014


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