Buddha Buzz Winter 2004
Hi-Tech MantraBuddhism may be 2,500 years old, but in some ways it’s downright futuristic. In New Zealand, the Dorje Chang Institute has miniaturized a mantra written by the Dalai Lama and copied it onto microfilm 18…
Jeff Wilson
Jeff Wilson is a Tricycle contributing editor, an author, a Shin Buddhist priest, and a professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Southern Sisters
Jeff Wilson visits the Carolina Buddhist Vihara, unlikely home of a reborn Theravada lineage.
Shambhala Mountain Center
Exploring the wilderness of the mind
Shedding Light on Shin
A scholarly introduction
Buddha Buzz Summer 2004
Monk stunts, mile-high meditation, and adventures in dharma dating
Buddha Buzz Spring 2004
The Envelope, PleaseMonks at Sherab Ling Monastery in India may soon have a new statue to add to their collection. Their album, Sacred Tibetan Chant, has been nominated for the 2003 Grammy award for best traditional…
Buddha Buzz Winter 2003
GOOOAAAALLLL! A Buddhist monastery in South Korea has finally finished its gigantic World Cup Mandala. The mandala, created to commemorate the soccer championship held there in 2002, is 11 meters tall (the number of players on…
Buddha Buzz Fall 2003
Give me a Brake!According to Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also known as “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers”) of NPR’s Car Talk, winter visitors to the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts should not set their…
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Mindful America
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle managing editor Emma Varvaloucas speaks with author and Tricycle contributing editor Jeff Wilson about how Buddhism influences and is appropriated by minority-Buddhist cultures in the United States and elsewhere. Wilson explains how an evangelical impulse has overtaken some mindfulness advocates. His latest book is Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture.
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