Dispatch from South Korea
As the Won Buddhist order inaugurates their new head dharma master, a Tricycle editor explores the country’s spiritual landscape.
Travel
Is Your Camera Part of Your Practice or a Hindrance to It?
While visiting the Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh, India, a pilgrim wonders what she’s missing when she’s capturing the moment.
A Buddhist Guide to Exploring New York
Visitors looking for a more contemplative experience can check out these landmarks, museums, and meditation centers.
The Intrepid Monk
A Korean Buddhist Crosses the Americas by Bicycle
Tricycle visits Bhikkhu Bodhi at Chuang Yen Monastery
Earlier this week, some Tricyclers were lucky enough to make it up to Carmel, New York in order to visit with Bhikkhu Bodhi at Chuang Yen Monastery. Chuang Yen is a Chinese Chán monastery, and my…
Cliff-Jumping with Cambodian Monks
This guest blogpost comes our way from Alex Tzelnic, a writer traveling in Cambodia.
The Obon Festival, honoring the dead, and the last of the Japantowns
The Obon Festival is a Japanese Buddhist three-day observance during which families honor their deceased ancestors. According to scholar and Shin priest Alfred Bloom, The Obon observance has deep roots in Asian ancestor cults from India…
Termite “Buddha” draws thousands
Thousands of Vietnamese have flocked to a rubber farm in the southern Binh Duong province of Vietnam to see the work of a group of very unusual…
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