STEPHEN T. BUTTERFIELD was a poet, English teacher, and the author of The Double Mirror: A Skeptical Journey Into Buddhist Tantra. His memoir about the late Tibetan meditation master, Chogyam Trungpa, appeared in Issue 142 of The Sun. Butterfield uses the lower-case "b" in "buddhist" because his teacher, Trungpa, "insisted on the small 'b' in his own usage, to distinguish from lineage, which is committed to meditation practice, from Buddhism as a philosophical scheme or system of religious rites and observances."

Bleeding Dharma

by Stephen T. Butterfield, May 1996 (Issue 245)

When Thieves Break In

by Stephen T. Butterfield, April 1993 (Issue 208)

Fifty Guilders

by Stephen T. Butterfield, August 1992 (Issue 200)

Encounter Above Tintern Abbey

by Stephen T. Butterfield, June 1992 (Issue 199)

Of Lineage And Love

by Stephen T. Butterfield, May 1991 (Issue 186)

A Cat Story

by Stephen T. Butterfield, May 1990 (Issue 174)

When The Teacher Fails

by Stephen T. Butterfield, May 1989 (Issue 162)

Celebrating The Charnel Ground

by Stephen T. Butterfield, March 1989 (Issue 160)

The Face Of Maitreya

by Stephen T. Butterfield, February 1989 (Issue 159)

Keeping A Short Bridge

by Stephen T. Butterfield, October 1988 (Issue 155)

On The Edge Of Shambhala

by Stephen T. Butterfield, June 1988 (Issue 151)

Roses On Fire

by Stephen T. Butterfield, May 1988 (Issue 150)

On Being Unable To Breathe

by Stephen T. Butterfield, March 1988 (Issue 148)

The Turquoise Dragon

by Stephen T. Butterfield, September 1987 (Issue 142)

The Light From Different Windows

by Stephen T. Butterfield, March 1987 (Issue 136)

Dharmapala

by Stephen T. Butterfield, December 1986 (Issue 133)