The Insight Journal

Published since 1989, Insight Journal offers Dharma articles of lasting interest, including original writing, illuminating interviews, transcripts, excerpts, and sutta study. The Journal provides critical and exegetical reflections on Buddhist traditions and practices, grounded in a broad comparative perspective. 

Explore and experience the profound insights of Buddhist inquiry with this freely offered resource and online archive.

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A Country Called Witness

Honoring Our Ancestors: A Buddhist Response to Anti-Asian Violence

Narratives of Grief, Narratives of Care

Sense Restraint in Daily Life: Recommendations from a Health Behavior Change Perspective

Wings of Wisdom and Compassion: Lessons of Freedom from Japanese American Internment in WWII

The Best Buddhist Story: Yasodhara’s Love and Loss

The Idea of Dhammadāna

The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns

What Does No-Self Really Mean?

Consciousness and Dependent Arising

Contemplative Practice in Dharma and Art: Attention, Sensation, and Transformation

The Five ‘Fingers’ of Name