Helen Tworkov is founding editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,[1] 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.

Helen Tworkov, who became Buddhist, is the editor of Tricycle.

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