Primary Point is the teaching journal of the Kwan Um School of Zen, published since 1983.

The current issue available as a PDF download. For older issues, please visit the Primary Point Archive.

 

Current Issue: Summer 2026, Volume 43, Number 1

Inka Ceremony for Tony Sager

Buddha’s Enlightenment Day Speech
Colin Beavan JDPSN

Attachment to Emptiness in Culture Today
Agata Hae In JDPSN

Dharma in Hospice and Chaplaincy: A Conversation

The Fix
George Hernandez

Starting and Growing a Sangha
Mark van Noppen

Motivation for Practice
Craig Coatney

Motivation for Practice
Josh Senften

Sorting Pins in the Darkness
Cherie Miot Abbanat