Helen Tworkov is founding editor of '' Tricycle: The Buddhist Review'', 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

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, and has most recently assisted him in the writing of ''Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism'', from

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Biography

Helen Tworkov, who became Buddhist, is the editor of Tricycle.Mary T. Rourke
Zen, USA
FEB. 18, 1997

Bibliography

* Tworkov, Helen (1989). ''Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers''. North Point Press. . (Expanded edition published by Kodansha in 1994.)

References

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