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“Rock star nun” Ani Choying Drolma, chant master Krishna Das, and chant leader Lama Tenzin Sangpo discuss music’s role in practice and the effort to repair their teacher’s monastery.
Interview with Ani Choying Drolma, Krishna Das, and Lama Tenzin Sangpo by Matthew Abrahams
Start your day with a fresh perspective
Action is not something you do, it’s something you are. In other words, you are not a noun, you’re a verb. That is our true nature.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
Conservative Buddhists force Thai artist to remove superhero-inspired Buddha paintings, the Dalai Lama urges peaceful dialogue in Hong Kong, and an elephant injures 18 at Buddhist pageant in Sri Lanka. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen and Matthew Abrahams
A Pure Land priest reflects on what it means to be both Buddhist and American.
By Reverend Earl Ikeda
Compassion is not about groups. It is about individuals.
By Ken McLeod
Tricycle’s Fall 2019 issue frames questions of our modern, global, and political world in a Buddhist context. With stories of Buddhists working toward more equal societies and practices for facing anger and hopelessness, this issue offers guidance and encouragement toward both personal and collective progress.
In an excerpt from her first new book of spiritual teachings in over seven years, Pema Chödrön explains how a simple shift in perspective can pull us out of despair; Rhonda Magee, author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice, offers a practice for how to calmly uncover our internalized biases in “Making the Invisible Visible”; Ken McLeod teaches four meditations for working with anger; and Caitlin Dwyer interviews a leader of the Thai feminist movement about the relationship between Buddhism and feminism in Southeast Asia.
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The City of Brotherly Love is best known for its cheesesteak and the Liberty Bell, but the town’s hidden pockets of tranquility will surprise you.
By Samuel Newhouse
The meaning of karma.
By Andrew Olendzki
The Western Buddhist landscape has been shaped in part by generations of alumni of Antioch University’s study abroad program in Bodhgaya, India.
By Eliza RockefellerTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
The Buddha's teachings—the dharma—arose in a very different world from the one we live in today. This pragmatic online course sets out an encompassing vision for understanding and practicing dharma in the contemporary world. At its heart is an easy acronym we can all learn to apply, ELSA: Embrace, Let go, See, and Act. Join Stephen and Martine Batchelor as they clarify the core elements of Buddhist thought and meditation practice for the way we live today.
With Stephen and Martine BatchelorVideo teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
Sensei José Shinzan Palma breaks down the false dichotomy between practice in the meditation hall and life “in the real world,” and shows how this realization of practice’s immediacy can transform our lives into a compassionate expression of service.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
In Kathmandu, life for female opioid addicts is hard. Addicted to the street drug pani and shunned by society, many turn to sex work and petty crime to survive. This documentary follows eight brave women who strive to recover against heavy odds and the former users who help them along the way.
By Raul Gallego AbellanTricycle wisdom in e-book format
Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity, introduces a fresh perspective to the dialogue between Buddhism and science. This anthology of Tricycle essays and interviews by Linda Heuman brings together Buddhist scholars, neuroscientists, and cultural critics on the question of finding meaning in our modern world.
Conversations with contemporary Buddhist leaders & thinkers
Writer and longtime Zen student Lawrence Shainberg joins Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen to discuss his new book, Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher. They talk about Shainberg’s struggles as a practitioner and an author and how he brings them together in his new memoir, which recounts his conversations with his literary heroes, Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, along with his teacher, Roshi Kyudo Nakagawa.
You can read an excerpt from Four Men Shaking in our Fall 2019 issue.
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