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The sacred Ganges river, a spiritual and ecological lifesource in India, has become one of the most contaminated rivers in the world. On a journey from its source in Himalayan glaciers to its outlet in the Bay of Bengal, three American filmmakers explore the fragile state of “Ma Ganga” (Mother Ganges) and interview those fighting for its future.
Start your day with a fresh perspective
Awakening the enlightened mind may not be a question of self-improvement, which is never-ending; it may be a question of faith, which is always available right now.
Daily wisdom, teachings & critique
Buddhist celebrate Vesak, Sri Lanka president pardons a Buddhist nationalist leader, and a new app offers meditation by and for people of color. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Karen Jensen and Matthew Abrahams
When we observe our anger, we create an opportunity for understanding ourselves and others.
By Mindy Newman
Six articles to honor Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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Tricycle‘s Summer 2019 issue offers a wealth of perspectives on both modern Western Buddhism and modern Western society at large. Media studies scholar Bernhard Pörksen takes a critical look at how new forms of media affect our perceptions of spiritual teachers in “Unmasking the Guru”; creative writing professor Daisy Hernández sheds light on a central Buddhist teaching’s importance amid our culture’s troubling rise in xenophobia; Pure Land minister Jeff Wilson shares a view of global interdependence unique to his tradition; and more.
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The work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Japan’s last woodblock master, documented the nation’s turbulent transition into the modern era.
By Gabriel Lefferts
The avant-garde artist discusses her award-winning album, Landfall, and how her work and Buddhist practice have merged over time.
By Matthew Abrahams
A Canadian academic opened the doors to Tibetan scholarship in the US and produced a generation of Buddhist thinkers.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe AgsarTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
Robert Wright shines a light on our tribalistic tendencies through the lens of evolutionary psychology. The result offers a clear, fresh perspective on Buddhist philosophy and practice and shows how mindfulness just might save the world.
With Robert WrightVideo teachings with contemporary Buddhist teachers
In his masterwork Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, the ancient Indian philosopher Nagarjuna offered enduring lessons on the core Buddhist concepts of emptiness and dependent arising. In this series, Barry Kerzin, the Dalai Lama’s personal physician, guides us through Nagarjuna’s teachings that would eventually come to define the Mahayana tradition.
Buddhist films and discussion for the Tricycle Community
The sacred Ganges river, a spiritual and ecological lifesource in India, has become one of the most contaminated rivers in the world. On a journey from its source in Himalayan glaciers to its outlet in the Bay of Bengal, three American filmmakers explore the fragile state of “Ma Ganga” (Mother Ganges) and interview those fighting for its future.
By Jake Norton, Pete McBrideTricycle 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
Acclaimed travel and spirituality writer Pico Iyer has written two new books about his life in Japan, Autumn Light (Penguin, April 2019), and the forthcoming A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations (Penguin, September 2019). Iyer views the books as complimentary: while Autumn Light describes his experience within the culture, A Beginner’s Guide offers his perspective as an outsider. Since marrying and moving in with his wife in her home city of Nara three decades ago, Iyer has become one of the foremost translators of Japanese culture to Western audiences. Iyer discusses his latest books as well as the way impermanence colors Japanese life and what it means to try to understand other cultures at a time when the term globalist has become, in many parts, a dirty word.
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