As many of you might have noticed, recent issues of Tricycle include a “Good Work” section that features a selection of Buddhist not-for-profits and charities. By highlighting these organizations, which have ranged from BuddhaBadges to Help…

Tricycle‘s newest intern, Alexander Caring-Lobel, despite having not yet worked a full day in the office, just spent the last few days in Atlanta covering the 2010 International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama’s…

The current issue of The New Yorker features a lengthy profile of the Dalai Lama entitled “The Next Incarnation,” written by Evan Osnos. After listening to a podcast with Osnos in which he talks about the…

Last week the Economist ran an article entitled “Marking time at the fringes,” which was an overview China’s efforts to control ethnic tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang. The article points out that while China hopes that…

Today’s New York Times featured an op-ed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who has just completed a 10-day teaching tour in the US. In “Many Faiths, One Truth,” the Dalai Lama speaks of the need…

This is a follow up to my blog on Friday. Day 3… Let me think……. ……..It was great! His Holiness continued with the Shantideva text but did not get to chapter 9 on Wisdom, although if…