Charles Johnson

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Dharma and the Artist’s Eye

A Tricycle contributing editor recounts how his religious practice and creative work became expressions of one another.

By Charles Johnson

Nov 21, 2014

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Every 28 Hours

The case of Trayvon Martin

By Charles Johnson

Jul 18, 2013

Magazine Society & Environment

Satyagraha Special Section: Blueprints of Freedom

How Martin Luther King, Jr., brought satyagraha to the U.S. and revolutionized the civil rights movement.

By Charles Johnson

Spring 2008

Magazine Society & Environment

The Dharma of Social Transformation

Charles Johnson argues that in cutting the root of our own suffering, we can’t help but confront the suffering of society.

By Charles Johnson

Winter 2006

Magazine

Going Beyond Ethnic Dualism

Author Charles Johnson reviews two new books by African-American Buddhists.

By Charles Johnson

Summer 2001

Magazine Society & Environment

Politics

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry made his famous declaration at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 and it was with similar conviction that the Buddha sat down beneath the fig tree in Bodhgaya 2,500 years ago, vowing to […]

[Gustav, Niebuhr] And [Charles, Johnson] And [Bhikshuni Thubten, Chodron] And [Russell C., Leong] And [ Anne, Jeffries] And [Neil, Gordon] Charles Johnson

Fall 2000

Magazine Society & Environment

Accepting the Invitation

Charles Johnson suggests that we take to heart Benjamin Franklin’s challenge: “Democracy is an invitation to struggle.”

By Charles Johnson

Fall 2000

Magazine Society & Environment

A Sangha by Another Name

A Buddhist and one of America’s preeminent African-American writers applies the suffering of the First Noble Truth to the suffering of blacks in white America, and traces the history of Dharma among black artists.

By Charles Johnson

Winter 1999