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
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