Rick Fields

Rick Fields (1942–1999) was a contributing editor to Tricycle and the author of Chop Wood, Carry Water; The Code of the Warrior; (with Bernie Glassman) Instructions to the Cook; and the well-known history of American Buddhism, How the Swans Came to the Lake.

CultureMagazine | Special Section

Buddhism Beat & Square

One afternoon in 1953, a young poet named Allen Ginsberg visited the First Zen Institute which was then still housed in an elegant private uptown apartment in New York City. Ginsberg occupied himself by perusing the…

By Rick Fields

Fall 1995

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section

Confessions of a White Buddhist

Dharma, Diversity, and Race

By Rick Fields

Fall 1994

CultureMagazine | Feature

Footsteps in the Snow

The Life Story and Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama

By Rick Fields

Spring 1994

IdeasMagazine | Reviews

Books in Brief

Mountains hidden by mountains

By Rick Fields

Winter 1993

TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk

The Buddha Got Enlightened Under a Tree

Author Rick Fields reflects on the Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, nature, and interdependence.

By Rick Fields

Winter 1992

Magazine | Reviews

The American Encounter with Buddhism 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent

A review of the ways nineteenth-century Buddhists simultaneously swam against and were swept along by the cultural currents of Victorian America

By Rick Fields

Winter 1992

Magazine | Column

Buddhist Journal Beat – Summer 1992

A survey of material from Buddhist journals compiled by Rick Fields, Tricycle's Editor-at-Large

By Rick Fields

Summer 1992

IdeasMagazine | Ancestors

Sailing to Fusang

Did a Buddhist monk "discover" the New World?

By Rick Fields

Spring 1992

Magazine | Column

Buddhist Journal Beat

RIVERS & MOUNTAINS The first issue of Buddhism at the Crossroads (formerly Spring Wind Buddhist Cultural Forum), published by the Zen Lotus Society in Toronto, focuses on the environment. In her article on environmental ethics, Stephanie Kaza…

By Rick Fields

Winter 1991