Linda Heuman
Linda Heuman is a Tricycle contributing editor and freelance journalist based in Providence, Rhode Island.
An interview with Buddhist scholar David McMahan
Culture Wars
As science invades the humanities, our understanding of Buddhism hangs in the balance
Eastern Self/Western Self Revisited
My previous blog post reflecting on Gish Jen’s new book Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Independent Self, generated quite a bit of discussion. Some respondents dismissed as mere “personal observation” the claim that people from…
Eastern Self/Western Self
We in the West are quite concerned these days with how to make the dharma authentically Western. But caution please, folks. Before we start inventing a new flavor of Buddhism to suit Western palettes, it is…
What’s at Stake as the Dharma Goes Modern?
An exploration of the background assumptions of the modern age and the unique challenges they present
Religion in Evolution
Robert N. Bellah Religion in Human Evolution Harvard University Press 2011, 784 pp., $39.95 cloth In an interview with Tricycle almost a decade ago, the sociologist of religion Robert N. Bellah addressed a central problem—perhaps thecentral…
Pursuing an American Buddhism
Linda Heuman interviews pioneering scholar Charles Prebish
Focusing
Eugene T. Gendlin, founder of an innovative self-actualization technique with transformative potential, talks with Linda Heuman.
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A Right to the Dharma
An Interview with Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin
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