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Buddhist teacher Larry Ward reflects on the koan of American society.
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On his 85th birthday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama released a record combining music and Buddhist teachings. How did we get here?
By Bhuchung D Sonam
The Uighur population faces what experts call “demographic genocide,” Bodhgaya hotels ban Chinese pilgrims, and there’s a new “pay what you can” mindfulness resource for caregivers and families. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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Made at the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Tricycle’s Summer 2020 issue contains teachings and essays that offer guidance on dealing with uncertainty and navigating an interconnected world. Sharon Salzberg teaches how the key to resilience lies in remembering that we are never alone in her dharma talk “Forever Connected”; writer Curtis White, in “Our World in the Wheel of Life,” critiques modern society by imagining a contemporary version of the Tibetan Wheel of Life; and former Zen monastic Vanessa Zuisei Goddard contemplates what makes a space sacred in “The Places We Go to Be Here.”
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A Japanese American group protests mass incarceration at the border. One of its Buddhist leaders envisions a new American identity.
Interview with Duncan Ryuken Williams by Ashoka MukpoTimeless teachings. Modern methods.
In this free workshop, Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author Andrew Holecek presents the bardo teachings of Tibetan Buddhism as a lens for understanding what’s happening in the world and within ourselves.
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A central concern of Won Buddhism, one of only a few forms of Buddhism founded since industrialization, is finding the balance between our material and spiritual lives. Dr. Bokin Kim, a Won minister and President of the Won Institute Of Graduate Studies, offers teachings from her tradition.
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Sabine, a Swiss actress, joins life at a small Soto Zen monastery in Japan to learn more about herself. The beautiful photography and sometimes difficult discoveries are interspersed with quotations from the eminent Zen master Kodo Sawaki.
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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.
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