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Tricycle magazine founder and editor Helen Tworkov joins host Jon Joseph to discuss her editorial and writing work, including her most recent book, Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America.
Summary
Tricycle magazine founder Helen Tworkov joins host Jon Joseph to discuss her editorial and writing work and her most recent book, Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America.
Tworkov first encountered Buddhism while traveling during the 1960s, and has studied both Zen and Tibetan Buddhism. She became a student of Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and currently spends time in both New York and Nova Scotia.
I wanted to add to the history of Buddhism in America something of the impolite, naïve, and despairing side of this wondrous journey.
—Helen Tworkov
Also from Helen Tworkov: Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers
Co-authored with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: In Love with the World: A Monks’s Journey
through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Source: helentworkov.com
Pacific Zen Luminaries event with Jon Joseph & Friends, recorded November 24, 2025
Jon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and PZI created this series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars, writers, poets, translators, activists, artists, teachers, and more.
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