Alex Caring-Lobel

Let It All Go

Introducing a special section on Buddhism and self-help

By Alex Caring-Lobel, Illustrations for this section by Brett Ryder

Winter 2015

Dalai Lama Says If Successor Is Female, She Must Be Very Attractive

“Otherwise, not much use,” the Dalai Lama told BBC.

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Sep 22, 2015

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Talking about Mindfulness

Amid puff pieces and “the backlash,” a new dialogue around mindfulness emerges.

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jun 12, 2015

A 1,500-Year-Old Monastery Teaches Buddhism to Chinese Millennials with Stop-Animation Shorts

Founded in 2011, Longquan Comic and Animation Group shoots its Buddhist-themed, stop-motion animation shorts in a mountain cave in Beijing’s Fenghuangling Nature Park. Longquan Monastery‘s abbot, Venerated Master Xueching, who is also Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Buddhist Association of China, first started using social media several years prior. Now, with a crew […]

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Apr 03, 2015

Trike Daily Society & Environment

The Economy of Salvation

To achieve the Buddhist goal of release from karmic debt, we must annul economic debt.

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jan 20, 2015

Magazine Arts & Culture

An Interview with Paul McBain

Q&A with a Buddhist filmmaker

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Winter 2014

Trike Daily

The End of the Dalai Lama?

Not exactly.

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Sep 10, 2014

Magazine

Books in Brief Summer 2014

Buddhist writer Clark Strand is disillusioned with American Buddhism. That is, he avows, with the exception of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world’s largest lay Buddhist institution, whose presence has been steadily growing on American shores as well as abroad. Founded in Japan in 1930, the organization now boasts 12 million members in 192 […]

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Summer 2014

Trike Daily

Peter Matthiessen, Writer and Zen Priest, Dies at 86

Peter Matthiessen—prolific author, naturalist, activist, and Zen priest—passed away at his home in Sagaponack, NY, on Saturday, April 5. He was 86. His death—three days prior to the release of his newest novel, In Paradise—marks the end of his struggle with leukemia, for which he was undergoing chemotherapy. Matthiessen was introduced to Zen practice by […]

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Apr 08, 2014