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50 Issues, 50 Teachings
With this our 50th issue, we look back at how we got from there to here—year by year, issue by issue, teaching by teaching. Selected by Tricycle’s editorial staff, this collection is by no means comprehensive.…
Features
Born in the USA: Racial Diversity in Soka Gakkai International
Has this oft-maligned Buddhist organization—the largest in America—figured out something that others haven't? Contributing editor Clark Strand has a few challenging answers.
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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Location
Muttering “Mutton” in Mongolia
The dharma emerges from under the Soviet shadow.
Back to the Beginning
An interview with Andrew Olendzki
Where the Moon Is Companion
Seven centuries of poetry under the same night sky
Virtual Treasures
The Himalayan Art Project to the rescue
Letters to the Editor Winter 2003
A Huxley Hoax?We’ve learned so much about Buddhism since Huxley was alive, I was surprised that Dana Sawyer simply reported Huxley’s judgments about Buddhism without checking to see if they were still valid or not [“Aldous…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Profile
Three Lives: The Buckshot Bodhisattva
An eco-warrior finds the dharma, opens his heart, and goes hunting.
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words
Illustrated books for the gift season
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Profile
Three Lives: Dancing on the Edge of Existence
Septuagenarian Buddhist cabaret performer Jack Poggi tap-dances his way to a new lease on life and a new take on death
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | General
Bartelby the Buddhist
A legal proofreader brings his practice to work.
Contributors Winter 2003
A veteran environmental journalist, Lisa Jones knew about Michael Soulé the “father of conservation biology” long before she knew about Michael Soulé the Buddhist (“The Buckshot Bodhisattva“). But now Jones and Soulé are both members of…
Road-Rage Haiku
Aaron Naparstek teaches a novel way to defuse anger in his new book, Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage.
Shaving Siddhartha
Osamu Tezuka, the "godfather of Japanese comics," has created an expansive eight-volume graphic novel of the Buddha's life, to be published over the course of the next year. The following scenes, from volume two, depict a…
MeditationMagazine | The Precepts
The Precepts: A Special Practice Section
The five lay precepts are more than a set of simple moral edicts: they serve as practical guidelines on the path to buddhahood.
A Question of Heart
A Q&A with Krishnamurti
Seeds of Plenty
Organic gardeners take on corporate crops.
Aging Into Dying and Death
Longtime Zen practitioner, haiku poet, and secretary of the U.K. Network of Engaged Buddhists, Ken Jones offers wisdom on aging and death. The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet—Ageing: The Great Adventure—that grew out of…
Working Off Karma
The latest in Buddhist fiction
Everyday Nirvana
The end of the quest
MeditationMagazine | Parting Words
Some Things You Can’t Let Go Of
In his mid thirties, the artist Frank Moore learned that he was HIV positive. His paintings took a new direction: “AIDS came to the fore,” he explained, “simply because it was affecting every aspect of my…
Finding Their Voices
Buddhist culture in China is a story langely told by men, for men, and about men. Echoes occasionally emerge suggesting that women, too, made rich contributions, but how many names come to mind? In Daughters of…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Noble Wishes
Improve your mind through the force of merit.
Bringing Up Buddha
A six-year-old test-drives children's books on the dharma.
Taming a Crank
Revered Sri Lankan monk Bhante Gunaratana (affectionately known as “Bhante G.”) offers wisdom on anger in his recent autobiography, Journey to Mindfulness.
Treasures in Translation
Q&A with Sarah Harding, and an excerpt from her new book on Pema Lingpa
A Monk Goes To Washington
At the conclusion of his U.S. tour in September, Thich Nhat Hanh traveled to Washington, DC, where he spoke with members of Congress and held a three-day retreat. In the packed auditorium of the Library of…
A Quality of Light: The Monks of Sera Jeh Monastery
Sheila Rock is an American photographer living in London. Her photographs have appeared in numerous magazines and on album covers, and are part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her forthcoming…
MeditationMagazine | On The Cushion
The Refuge of Sitting
A reader from Boise, Idaho wries: "How do I develop a disciplined sitting practice?"
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Profile
Three Lives: From Biker To Buddhist
An interview with former renegade biker James Veliskakis
Buddha Buzz Winter 2003
GOOOAAAALLLL! A Buddhist monastery in South Korea has finally finished its gigantic World Cup Mandala. The mandala, created to commemorate the soccer championship held there in 2002, is 11 meters tall (the number of players on…
Books in Brief Winter 2003
So you went to the Dalai Lama’s teachings in New York in September and found yourself riveted by the spirited investigation of the logical basis of Buddhist philosophy? Now it’s time for Maps of the Profound:…
Is Mindfulness a Religion?
Buddhism runs afoul of the Church/State debate.
A Very Long Walk
In 1977 two American monks set out on foot from Los Angeles on an 800-mile pilgrimage to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a religious and educational center in Mendocino County, California. The pilgrims, Heng Sure…
Borscht Belt Buddhism
Soon after Shakyamuni began ordaining disciples, he instituted the practice of an annual rainy-season retreat (called varshika, or “belonging to the rains”), during which the community ceased its wandering and settled down to meditate and study…
Cleveland Zen Teacher Woos Zen Coach
The head priest of the Jijuyu-ji Zen Group has put in a good word for Cleveland with basketball’s “Zen Coach” Phil Jackson, who is weighing various offers with teams around the country. According to The New…
The Value of Just Sitting
Expatriates who sat out the Sixties
Three Lives: Intro
In the following section, three lives cross the Buddha’s path in unexpected ways: an ex-outlaw biker takes refuge; a septugenarian cabaret dancer ponders death; and a rifle-toting biologist views the…
On Tap Shoes Or a Harley
When Tricycle cover designer Frank Olinsky proposed the current cover, I wasn’t sure if I was looking at Newsweek or Time. After a few seconds, my eyes began to focus on the fifty—count ’em, fifty—Tricycle covers.…