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Magazine | Letters to the Editor, The Conversation
Letters to the Editor
Our readers respond to Tricycle's print and online offerings.
CultureMagazine | Letter from the Editor, The Conversation
Words Matter
A letter from Tricycle's editor-in-chief James Shaheen
CultureMagazine | Featured Contributors, The Conversation
Featured Contributors
Featured contributors for the Summer 2025 issue include Lewis Richmond, Sarah Kokernot, and An Tran.
Openings
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Openings
The Long Night of Life
A dharmic origin story
IdeasMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Breaking Self-Addiction
An excerpt of a conversation between Vimalasara and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
CultureMagazine | Books, Openings
What We’re Reading
The latest in Buddhist publishing
CultureMagazine | Audio Dharma, Openings
What We’re Listening To
Two dharma talks, a video, and a music playlist to enhance your Buddhist practice
TeachingsMagazine | Openings, Visiting Teacher
Visiting Teacher: Anshin Devin Ashwood
Q&A with Anshin Devin Ashwood, Soto Zen and insight meditation teacher and Buddhist prison chaplain
CultureMagazine | Openings, The Buddhist Traveler In
The Buddhist Traveler in Boulder
Finding tranquility in “America’s happiest city”
CultureMagazine | On Haiku, Openings
A Place of Refuge
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge explores one of the oldest symbols in Buddhism.
CultureMagazine | By the Numbers, Openings
Buddhism by the Numbers in Colorado
Buddhist statistics from "America's Happiest City"
CultureMagazine | Openings, Sacred Sites
The Hill of the Buddha
If you meet a buddha in a cemetery, bury it.
Teachings
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
The Three Fortresses
In troubled times, we must protect our minds
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Cultivating Awareness
A brief teaching on how awareness can help you live fuller
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Encourage Others by Overcoming Your Own Suffering
The co-abbot of Embracing-Simplicity Hermitage on the transformative power of courage and compassion
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Devotion to the Moment
A brief teaching on how the means we use are the ends we achieve
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Knowing Contentment
On simplifying our needs
TeachingsMagazine | Teachings, The Eight Worldly Winds
The Eight Worldly Winds: Praise and Blame
Printable aids for the pillars of Buddhist practice
TeachingsMagazine | Meet a Teacher, Teachings
Meet a Teacher: Ayya Soma
A Theravada bhikkhuni challenges gender divisions in monasticism.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Owning Your Dharma
Is the glass half samsara or half nirvana?
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Making Life Your Practice
There are no vacations from the bodhisattva vow.
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Small Moments of Awakening
A brief teaching on enjoying the moments of stillness and contentment
Features
A New Buddhist Canon
Translation doesn’t merely preserve traditions; it creates them.
She Said No
Historian Sarah Jacoby on women's sexual agency in Tibetan Buddhist literature
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Benevolent Unknown
Taking refuge in moments of awakening
Investigate!
The teachings of Laiguo Miaoshu, a 20th-century Chan master
Enchantment and Illusion
Michela Martello's lively compositions examine gender, tantric imagery, and the Middle Way.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Price of Practice
In pursuit of the dharma, a young Buddhist faces questions of sex, money, and power.
The Edge of Language
Tricycle's Editor-in-Chief interviews Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Sze for the Tricycle Talks podcast
Getting to Know the Buddha
A teaching and practice on recollection and devotion
Dual Cultivation
A unique Vietnamese practice emerges from the convergence of two traditions.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Power of a Quiet Life
Sometimes the best way to help the world is to move slowly through it.
Reviews
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews, Books
American Zen Retold
How koans and autobiographical narratives reveal the evolution of Zen practice in America
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews, Books
Finding Dharma in Everyday Life
A fictional journey through Mahayana Buddhism’s six perfections
CultureMagazine | Books, Reviews
Tsongkhapa
One of Buddhism's greatest thinkers
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews, Books
Love, Thay
Who knew Thich Nhat Hanh was a prolific correspondent?
Parting Words
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Startled by the Moon a Magpie Took Off
A poem by Xin Qiji