Personal Reflections Tricycle Talks
A Refuge That No One Can Touch
Tricycle’s founding editor reflects on her path to Buddhism.
Helen Tworkov
Helen Tworkov is Tricycle's founding editor and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (1989). She's also the co-author of Turning Confusion Into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (2014) and In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying (2019), which she wrote with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
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A House in Cape Breton
An excerpt from Lotus Girl, the new memoir by Tricycle’s founder
‘Is That Really What You Want to Glorify?’
In an excerpt from her new memoir Lotus Girl, Tricycle’s founder talks about Richard Serra, the Vietnam War, and how to free ourselves from the destructive mind states of aggression.
Magazine | Openings, The Archives
Past Lives, Present Issues
bell hooks on Buddhism and love
Mingyur Rinpoche on Overcoming Panic and Finding Joy Through Acceptance
Tricycle founder Helen Tworkov asks the Tibetan Buddhist teacher about leading a joyful life in such turbulent times.
Beware Of What You Wish For
We may have longed for a disruption to our everyday lives—but on our own terms.
Video: Letting My Self Die
The Tibetan Buddhist teacher discusses what his near-death experience showed him about our ability to change.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Leaving Everything Behind
A renowned teacher gives up a traditional life of protection to seek the extreme and transformational conditions of an anonymous mendicant monk.
The Good Shepherd
Strengthening our natural capacity for awareness
Podcasts
At the Crossroads of Buddhism and America
Tricycle’s founding editor reflects on Buddhism’s development in the West over the past sixty years.
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Dying Every Day
Author and Tricycle’s founding editor, Helen Tworkov, discusses the new book that she co-wrote with her teacher, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, about his four-year wandering retreat and near-death experience. In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying follows the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master as he sneaked out of his monastery in Bodhgaya, India, to live as a beggar and traveling yogi.
Here, Tworkov sits down with James Shaheen, Tricycle’s publisher and editor, to discuss how she helped Mingyur Rinpoche tell his story, the near-death experience that transformed his life and teachings, and how seeing the small deaths we experience each day can help us alleviate our fears of dying. They also discuss the origins of the magazine and how the Western Buddhist landscape has changed over time.
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