Helen Tworkov

Video: Letting My Self Die

The Tibetan Buddhist teacher discusses what his near-death experience showed him about our ability to change.

With Helen Tworkov and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

May 01, 2019

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.

By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

Summer 2019

Magazine Meditation & Practice

The Good Shepherd

Strengthening our natural capacity for awareness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

Summer 2014

In Celebration of Beginnings

The name Tricycle continues to evoke curiosity and some befuddlement. Yet there is logic to this nomenclature: a vehicle for the path; a beginner’s vehicle with its allusion to the quintessential Zen concept of “beginner’s mind,” and for beginning dharma in the West; three (as in wheels) for the Three Treasures: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and […]

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 2001

Magazine Personal Reflections

The Great Experiment

Interview with Tim Olmsted

By Helen Tworkov

Fall 2010

Magazine Society & Environment

Satyagraha Special Section: Introduction

An introduction to our special section, Satyagraha: The Force of Truth

By Helen Tworkov

Spring 2008

Magazine Society & Environment

Just Power

In a talk given at Smith College, Helen Tworkov reflects on a half century of American Buddhist women and reimagines the future of power.

By Helen Tworkov

Winter 2005

Magazine Society & Environment

Contemplating Corporate Culture

An interview with Mirabai Bush on bringing contemplation into the inner sanctum of American power, from Harvard University to Monsanto.

By Helen Tworkov

Summer 2001

Magazine

A Two-Track Mind

Every time the salesman at Eastern Mountain Sports brought an item for me to try on—a Superwick undershirt, a fleece vest, a coated-nylon shell—I tried to gauge my level of comfort for various degrees of inclement weather. By the time he asked where I was going, he had every reason to expect me to say […]

By Helen Tworkov

Spring 2001

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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Low-Caste Buddhist Converts Denied Affirmative Action in India

Indian state denies benefits to Dalit Buddhists trying to escape caste discrimination, a bipartisan bill seeks to protect the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, and an alleged thief ring targeted US temples. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

By Karen Jensen

Sep 21, 2019

Magazine

The Buddhist Review

Buddhist Temple at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Society & Environment

The Buddhist Traveler in Philadelphia

The City of Brotherly Love is best known for its cheesesteak and the Liberty Bell, but the town’s hidden pockets of tranquility will surprise you.

By Samuel Newhouse

Fall 2019

Dharma Talks

Video teachings and discussions with contemporary Buddhist teachers

Meditation & Practice

How to be Selfless in a Selfish World

Sensei José Shinzan Palma breaks down the false dichotomy between practice in the meditation hall and life “in the real world,” and shows how this realization of practice’s immediacy can transform our lives into a compassionate expression of service.

Sensei José Shinzan Palma

Sep 2019

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