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Celebrate Valentine's Day with exotic love poems from ancient India, love letters between a tantric couple, and teachings on lovingkindness.
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When confusion and ignorance have been definitively eliminated, and goodness, caring, and wisdom have entirely taken their place, that is true happiness.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for more lovingkindness, mindfulness in schools and government is debated, and a memorial service for Bernie Glassman. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emma Varvaloucas and Matthew Abrahams
Mila, Great Sorcerer composer Andrea Clearfield discusses the research and field recordings of Tibetan folk and ritual music that influenced the new opera.
By Matthew Abrahams
Religious discrimination stoked the fear behind the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans as much as racism did, explains scholar and Zen priest Duncan Ryuken Williams.
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Ever relevant to today’s most pressing topics, this issue of Tricycle examines what national identity means by revisiting the experiences of Japanese American Buddhists during World War Two. Deemed a threat to US security, these practitioners found refuge in their faith in internment camps, ultimately forging an eclectic tradition that would shape Buddhism’s emergence in the West. In “Tolerably Black,” Nichiren Buddhist artist Aretha Busby talks about how we can reckon with the American history of slavery from a place of compassion, and scholar Linda Heuman unpacks conversations between the Dalai Lama and climate scientists on what’s needed to save our planet.
Plus, learn to gauge when to speak and when to listen by applying a simple practice in self-awareness and meet the “Coconut Monk,” a peace-loving yogi living on a bizarro Buddhist island in wartime Vietnam.
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A Nichiren Buddhist artist invites us to reckon with the painful legacy of American slavery with openness and compassion.
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On February 19th, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an executive order designating military zones along the West Coast and laying the groundwork for US authorities to remove citizens of Japanese descent from their homes and imprison them in camps. While it is widely acknowledged that racism was central to this shameful chapter of American history, the role of religious discrimination cannot be overlooked, says scholar and Soto Zen priest Duncan Ryuken Williams.
Here, Williams joins Tricycle Editor and Publisher James Shaheen to discuss his new book, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War, how Japanese Americans in internment camps stood up for religious freedom, and how this disturbing legacy of persecution has taken on new relevance.
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