Charles Johnson

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Turning Word

A novelist, philosopher, and Soto Zen practitioner talks about what Buddhist book has made a significant impact on his practice.

By Charles Johnson

Summer 2019

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

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

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Mon Refugees from Myanmar Build a Buddhist Community in Akron, Ohio

Members of the ethnic minority are preserving their Theravada tradition at a growing sangha in the Midwest and bringing new energy to a stagnant economy.

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Nov 18, 2019

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For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.

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Winter 2019

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Good Question! The Art of Meditative Inquiry

The Buddha encouraged us to investigate our experiences, but some ways of questioning mire us in confusion while others are liberating. Dharma and Insight Meditation teacher Narayan Helen Liebenson helps us distinguish skillful from unskillful types of inquiry and approach life’s deepest questions with a spirit of wholesome curiosity.

Narayan Helen Liebenson

Nov 2019

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