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This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: Q&A with Thich Nhat Hanh during the “Engaged Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century” retreat in Hanoi; stories from the biannual United Nations Day of Vesak in Vietnam; mindful dying; Buddhist tools for tackling climate change; news from the European Institute of Applied Buddhism.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue: how mindfulness, kindness, and Sangha building can nourish us through the uncertain terrain of loss; transforming busyness and distraction into mindfulness at home and at work; the Estes Park, Colorado retreat 2009—the first large retreat conducted by monastics without Thay’s physical presence; the young monastics who were forcibly removed from Bat Nha Monastery in September 2009; Maitreya Fonds, a German organization enriching children’s education in Vietnam.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. In this issue, we honor the Plum Village 30th Anniversary and the Wake Up movement: our history and our future. This issue includes: a treasury of photos from the first decades of Plum Village; memories from the early years; the heart of our practice—changing mud into lotus flowers; how the Wake Up movement began with Thay’s repeated question: “How can we share the practice with young people?;” bright moments from the movement’s short history (Wake Up tours, the creation of a CD for peace, flash mob meditations).

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This issue shares potent examples of how people have creatively transformed their suffering with Lyme disease, schizophrenia, abuse, the trauma of war, and their own anger; wonderful essays about the continuation of Buddhism in the young generation, as well as travel and cross-cultural exchange; Thich Nhat Hanh’s Dharma talk, “To Make Reconciliation Possible,” gives us keys for working with the suffering caused by difficult relationships between individuals, ethnic groups, and nations.

This issue is included in our digital subscriptions. This special issue celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Plum Village in France and of the Plum Village style of mindfulness practice throughout the world. This issue introduces a few of the thousands of people who have given themselves to this way of living and have been transformed in the process.