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Scientists search for the origins of COVID-19 at bat-filled Buddhist grottoes in Thailand, the Indian village where Kamala Harris’s grandfather was born celebrates the inauguration, and a Shingon priest publishes his stunning bug photography. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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As he reflects on the aging self, writer Douglas Penick comes to appreciate uncertainty and the slipperiness of memory.
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Mizuko’s filmmakers looked to a Japanese Buddhist ritual to process their complicated feelings about abortion.
Interview with Kira Dane and Katelyn Rebelo by Lakshmi Gandhi
As uncertainty and distress escalate amid social, political, and environmental unraveling and on the brink of a US presidential election, it can be hard not to get caught up in the times. But as Editor-and-Publisher James Shaheen writes in this issue’s editorial (“A Time for Eternities”), we must do our best to ground our experience of such day-to-day turbulence in the spiritual truths that endure. In “Living in a World That No Longer Exists,” social critic Curtis White ruminates on the changed shape of cultural artifacts he previously thought to have vanished; pop music icon Tina Turner reflects on the Buddhist teachings and practices that made her indestructibly strong throughout her adult life; and Insight Meditation teacher Tuere Sala talks about racial justice in the context of her time as a Buddhist prosecuting attorney. And because patience can’t be valued enough, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche expounds on this pillar of Buddhist practice in the Dharma Talk “The Path of Patience.”
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Insight Meditation teacher Tuere Sala talks about her time as a Buddhist prosecuting attorney.
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In his new book, Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment Through the Ages, Sam van Schaik, a textual historian and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, makes a compelling case for why we should pay attention to Buddhism’s magical heritage—and what we lose by casting it aside.
In our latest podcast episode with Tricycle’s Editor and Publisher James Shaheen, van Schaik debunks misperceptions about early Buddhism by showing how magical literature can offer a more holistic and realistic view of Buddhism from the ground up. He also paints a vivid picture of the role monks and nuns may have played in the magical-gig economy as well as how we can view mindfulness meditation in a comparable way—as the magic of our current age.
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