Alex Caring-Lobel

Alex Caring-Lobel is Tricycle’s former associate editor.

Trike Contributing Editor David Loy takes on “McMindfulness”

Over at the Huffington Post, Tricycle contributing editor David Loy and Ron Purser take on the trend of “McMindfulness,” a quickly growing (and lucrative) industry slinging a form of secularized mindfulness deracinated from its ethical context. Proponents…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jul 02, 2013

Buddha Buzz: The Face of Buddhist Terror & The Face of the Dalai Lama (in Tibet)

Buddhist-led anti-Muslim violence and persecution has received unprecedented mass-media attention in the past couple weeks. Images of Wirathu—monk-leader of the “969” movement, recognized for its hate speech and for inciting violence against Burma’s Muslims—have now graced…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jun 28, 2013

Buddha Buzz: The Surveillance State & Revenge of the Neural Buddhists

We’re in DC attending BuddhaFest and filming interviews, dharma talks, and Q&As for the Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Film Festival, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. We even almost lost an editor in a small DC…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jun 21, 2013

Buddha Buzz: Steven Seagal and Vladimir Putin

Action film star, orientalist, martial arts expert, and recognized Tibetan Buddhist tulku Steven Seagal reemerged in the media this week after aiding a congressional delegation to Russia. Seagal has long been well connected in Russia, where…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jun 07, 2013

Buddha Buzz: Radical Strains of Buddhism

Virulent anti-Muslim violence has once again enveloped a Burmese town—this time Lashio in the northeastern Shan State. What was once perceived as an isolated outbreak of murderous rioting in the western Rakhine state against Rohingya Muslims…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

May 31, 2013

Buddha Buzz: Chinese Policing Tibetan Areas Suffer from PTSD

France24 reporter Cyril Payen recently brought new interviews and images out of Tibet that reveal a dire human rights situation resembling “an Orwellian world of surveillance.” Nicholas Bequelin with Human Rights Watch contends that “the situation in Tibet…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

May 24, 2013

The Ban on Rupert Sheldrake’s TED Talk

Scientist Rupert Sheldrake’s recent work lays bare many of the unexamined assumptions common in mainstream science. I was very pleased to find that the first online comment on “A Question of Faith,” my interview with Sheldrake…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

May 22, 2013

Buddha Buzz: Marijuana-filled Buddhas, HHDL speak out on Burma, and some good ol’ Buddhist Americana

Earlier this week US Customs and Border Protection officials seized nearly 600 lbs of pot inside a shipment of Buddha statues and other religious figurines. Officials at the El Paso US-Mexico crossing discovered the narcotics—and an…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

May 10, 2013

Buddha Buzz: Sex Tape and the Sangha

In Lowell, Massachusetts, a sex-tape scandal involves neither unscrupulous celebrities nor hapless victims of disgruntled exes, but a Buddhist temple, a monk, and a community organizer with some shady finances. The city’s Cambodian community has been…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

May 03, 2013

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Alex Caring-Lobel

Trike Contributing Editor David Loy takes on “McMindfulness”

Buddha Buzz: The Face of Buddhist Terror & The Face of the Dalai Lama (in Tibet)

Buddha Buzz: The Surveillance State & Revenge of the Neural Buddhists

Buddha Buzz: Steven Seagal and Vladimir Putin

Buddha Buzz: Radical Strains of Buddhism

Buddha Buzz: Chinese Policing Tibetan Areas Suffer from PTSD

The Ban on Rupert Sheldrake’s TED Talk

Buddha Buzz: Marijuana-filled Buddhas, HHDL speak out on Burma, and some good ol’ Buddhist Americana

Buddha Buzz: Sex Tape and the Sangha

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