The Circle (magazine)

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The circle

Area of ​​Expertise tantric buddhism
language German
publishing company Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation
First edition 1956
Editor-in-chief Birgit Zotz
Web link www.lama-govinda.de/content/der_kreis.htm
ISSN 2197-6007
ZDB 303156-1

The circle is a magazine founded in 1956 by Hans-Ulrich Rieker and Wilhelm A. Rink , which is dedicated to the topics of Tantra and Buddhism and also reports on activities and projects of the Arya Maitreya Mandala .

history

When a branch of Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala emerged in Europe in 1952, Harry Pieper started the journal Licht des Dharma, which was published in Berlin . Der Kreis emerged from this magazine , which was founded in 1956 by Hans-Ulrich Rieker, inspired by the Buddhist writer and artist Lama Anagarika Govinda and editorially headed by Wilhelm A. Rink. Thereafter, from 1970 Karl-Heinz Gottmann and from 1999 to 2015 Armin Gottmann worked as editor of the magazine. The cultural anthropologist Birgit Zotz has been responsible for the magazine since 2015 .

Like its predecessor, the Light of Dharma , the circle gained notoriety in specialist circles as soon as it was founded because the magazine at that time still provided rare information about the Vajrayana . Pre-reprints of Lama Anagarika Govinda's books such as Creative Meditation and Multidimensional Consciousness and The Inner Structure of the I Ching in the 1970s and 1980s contributed to the wider circulation of the magazine.

The place of publication has changed several times since 1956. After Wiesbaden , Meersburg-Daisendorf , Tübingen , Stuttgart , Kelkheim and Überlingen , the magazine comes out today in Pforzheim . The publisher also changed several times. At the beginning of the publication this was the "Brotherhood of Germany of the Order Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala" and from 1970 the "Branch West Europe" of the same order, the circle has been published since the 1990s by the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation , which is dedicated to the spiritual Dedicated legacy of Lama Anagarika Govinda and his wife Li Gotami Govinda .

title

The title The circle expresses that Anagarika Govinda the "Arya Maitreya Mandala understood as an intercultural project." Circle is about one hand the Indian word mandala again, with a geometric image is referred to that in the cult practice of Hinduism and Buddhism a has magical or religious significance. On the other hand, the name ties in with the tradition of the avant-garde cultural magazine Der Kreis , to which Hans Henny Jahnn , Ludwig Klages , Max Beckmann , Hans Leip and Joachim Maass had contributed articles before they were banned by the National Socialist government in 1933 in the 10th year has been. The subtitle of the magazine changed several times. Among other things, it was the magazine for Buddhism in the West . Today schriftrya Maitreya Maṇḍala magazine is in the subtitle.

Authors

Among the authors of Der Kreis are the religious scholars Martin Baumann and Ernst Benz , the sociologist Detlef Kantowsky , the Indologists Hans Wolfgang Schumann , and Karel Werner , and Birgit Zotz . There are also contributions from Nyanaponika , Lionel Stützer , Bhikkhu Bodhi and Karl Schmied . The cultural scientist Günther Däss wrote regular reviews for Der Kreis , including works by Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering , Alan Watts as well as Adel Theodor Khoury and Peter Hünermann .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the founders from the imprint of Der Kreis No. 270 (October 2013). P. 2
  2. ↑ Volker Zotz: “'Stay a philosopher as long as you want it!' The beginnings of Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala in Europe. ”In: Derselbe (Ed.): Interfaces. Buddhist encounters with shamanism and western culture. Festschrift for Armin Gottmann on his 70th birthday. Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2013 ( ISBN 978-2-919771-04-2 ), pp. 153–176
  3. ↑ See imprint and editorial of issue 273 (May 2015)
  4. ↑ Information on Der Kreis in the journal database
  5. ↑ Volker Zotz : Leitmotifs of Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala. Koerich, Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2013 ( ISBN 978-2-919771-06-6 )
  6. ↑ See Roland Jaeger: The circle. Journal of Artistic Culture. Hamburg 1924–1933. Bibliography . State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , 1984 and Der Kreis 1.1924–10.1933. Journal of Artistic Culture . German Literature Archive Marbach , 1998. ISBN 3-89131-313-6 (Marbach microfiche editions)
  7. ↑ Martin Baumann: "Buddhism in the Occident - Historical Development and Present Presence." In: Der Kreis No. 215
  8. ↑ Ernst Benz: "The importance of religious studies for the coexistence of religions today." In: Der Kreis Nr. 220
  9. ↑ Detlef Kantowsky: "Forms of today's Theravada in India." In: Der Kreis No. 236-238
  10. ↑ Hans Wolfgang Schumann: “Was Pali the language of the Buddha?” In: Der Kreis No. 213
  11. ↑ Karel Werner: "Mysticism and Indian Spirituality." In: Der Kreis No. 221
  12. ↑ Birgit Zotz: “Eighty years Ārya Maitreya Maṇḍala - a chronology.” In: Der Kreis No. 270
  13. ↑ Der Kreis No. 177 (1985) pp. 50-52
  14. ↑ Der Kreis No. 174 (1985), pp. 108-110
  15. ↑ Der Kreis No. 176 (1985), pp. 46-48