Helen Tworkov
Helen Tworkov | |
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Helen Tworkov, founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review | |
| Title | Author; founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Helen Tworkov 1943 (age 82–83) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hunter College City University of New York (anthropology) |
| Occupation | Writer; magazine editor |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Zen; Tibetan Buddhism |
| Lineage | Kagyu; Nyingma |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche |
| Based in | New York and Nova Scotia |
| Website | www |
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 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, ISBN 9780525512547.