Helen Tworkov

Helen Tworkov
Title	Author former editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Personal
Born	1943 (age 80–81) New York, New York
Religion	Buddhism
Education	Hunter College City University of New York

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

Biography

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

Bibliography

• Tworkov, Helen (2024). Lotus Girl: My Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and America. St. Martin's. ISBN 9781250321558.

• Tworkov, Helen (1989). Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. North Point Press. ISBN 0-86547-354-4. (Expanded edition published by Kodansha in 1994.)

With Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche:

• In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying. Penguin Random House, 2019. ISBN 9780525512547

• Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism. Snow Lion, 2014. ISBN 9781611801217