Brent Huffman

Trike Daily Society & Environment

How a Historic Buddhist Site Has Eluded Destruction—for Now

Plans to open-pit mine the ancient city of Mes Aynak in Afghanistan have been put on hold, but the site is still far from safe.

By Brent Huffman

Feb 06, 2020

Film Club

Saving Mes Aynak

By Brent Huffman

Feb 2020

Magazine Society & Environment

The Fate of Mes Aynak

An ancient Buddhist city is caught in a drawn-out battle between commerce and culture in Afghanistan

by Brent Huffman | photographs by Michal Przedlacki

Spring 2013

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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Karmapas Work Together to Identify Reincarnated Lama

Tibetan New Year festivities cut back over coronavirus risk, the two claimants to the title of Karmapa will jointly identify the Shamarpa’s reincarnation, and a project showcasing Buddhist women shut down. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

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Feb 15, 2020

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Building Blocks of Reality

A Tibetan lama uses 3D printing technology to add greater depth to the Western understanding of an ancient teaching.

By Matthew Abrahams

Spring 2020

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Living the Lotus Sutra

Nichiren Shonin taught that the essence of the Lotus Sutra is found by developing faith through chanting what’s called the daimoku (or the odaimoku), the sutra’s sacred title. Myokei Caine-Barrett, the first woman and the first Westerner to hold the position of bishop in the Nichiren Order of North America, leads us through daimoku practice.

Myokei Caine-Barrett

Feb 2020

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