Helen Tworkov

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

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