Liberation (No. 1 - June 2003): Magazine of FPMT's Liberation Prison Project ("Buddhism in prisons around the world")

San Francisco, CA: Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition. Offered is the premiere issue (No. 1 - June 2003) of "Liberation: Magazine of FPMT's Liberation Prison Project" (also subtitled "Buddhism in prisons around the world" with the Venerable Robina Courtin, Tove Beatty, and Susan Maresco comprising the Editorial Board, and published by the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition out of San Francisco, California. A magazine with glossy covers measuring 8-1/8" by 10-1/2" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. With photographs and illustrations throughout, Contents include: From Within: Words and pictures from people in prison; Special Report - The mind of a Death Row inmate ("James Munson writes about the day he and the other 155 men on Death Row in Illinois heard that their death sentences had been commuted to life in prison"); News: Reports of Liberation Prison Project Activities Worldwide; Teaching: If you are practicing Dharma, you are not in prison ("Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche says that the real prisoners are ordinary people 'living with attachment 24 hours a day'"); [Personal Reports Section] - A road not always easy but always worthwhile ("Julie Missling, now home with her son after five years in prison, is a changed woman"); Out of one prison and into another ("Timothy Haremza is struggling to find his way in his newly discovered inner prisons after twenty years in Michigan correctional facilities"); Holding the key to freedom ("Mark Griffin in Western Australia's Acacia Prison is finally making friends with his crazy mate Griffo"); On working with women in prison ("Greg Sneddon works with the women of Fairlea, a prison in Melbourne"). Mailing address stamped to lower rear cover. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 2003.