The Authenticity Trap
Trying to define what is truly Buddhist is probably a waste of time.
Buddhist Traditions
What School of Buddhism Is Right for You?
A psychologist and former monk explains how to find the tradition most suited to your personality.
Ghosts, Gods, and the Denizens of Hell
Of Buddhism's six alternately wretched and blissful realms, only ours offers a shot at complete liberation.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Question
Tricycle asks seventeen practitioners: What in Buddhism have you changed your mind about, and why?
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Conceptions of Happiness
Happiness is awakening to the question “Who is happy, who is unhappy, who lives, and who dies?” True happiness is uncaused, arising from the very nature of being itself. We seek happiness only when we are…
In the Between
Translation and introduction by Robert A. F. Thurman
Enlightenment Needs a Minyan
I want to explore the possibility, within Buddhism, of enlightenment as a collective as well as an individual process, nurtured by a practice of public truth-telling in a community of spiritual equals. The seeds of this…
In the News Spring 1996
PRETENDER TO THE THRONE In our last issue we reported on the outrage of Chinese officials when the Dalai Lama announced that a six-year old Tibetan boy, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, had been determined to be the reincarnation of…
IdeasMagazine | From The Academy
A Sangha-less Sangha
One becomes a Buddhist by going for refuge in the “three gems”—in other words by saying, “I go for refuge to the Buddha, I go for refuge to the dharma, I go for refuge to the…
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