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.

Fall 2025

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Editor’s Introduction

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Emptiness Requires Contextualization: On Rob Burbea’s ‘Seeing That Frees’

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‘Seeing That Frees’ in Context: A Response to Bhikkhu Anālayo

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Emptiness Requires Contextualization (2): Clinging and Liberation

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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

Encountering and Practicing Buddhism in Integrated Sanghas

Living Our Histories, Shaping Our Futures: Buddhist Practice and Anti-Racist Education for White People

“When I Could Do Nothing”: Buddhism and the Practice of Poetry in a Time of Pandemic

Climate, Corona, and Collapse: The Dharma was Made for these Times

Dependent Arising

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 4: Walking the Path

Mindfully Facing Climate Change – Part 3: Liberation of the Mind