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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Law and Order
Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You?
Re: Voting
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Freedom’s Just Another Word
What truly is liberation? According to Smithers, it's not just a matter of outer freedoms.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks
An interview with bell hooks
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Precepts: Ethics in Action
By the People, For the People
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Politics of Enlightenment
An interview with Robert A.F. Thurman
Features
Samsara Squared
Buddhism and Virtual Reality
Mindful to the Quarter-inch
Mid-afternoon, twenty-four hours into a three-day vipassana retreat, I entered the teacher’s cottage for my interview. Although I had attended many meditation retreats with lay teachers, this was my first interview with an Asian monk. Hesitant, bowing,…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Driving Me Crazy
Diary of an American Zen Failure in Japan
Report from Rio: The Earth Summit
Monday, June 1 Flying to Rio de Janeiro from New York, we pass over Freshkill Landfill, the largest man-made object in the world. It reminds me that we Americans throwaway twice our body weight in…
Rebirth: A Case for Buddhist Agnosticism
In 1254 the Franciscan friar William of Rubruck, a missionary in Mongolia, became the first Westerner to describe a reincarnate Buddhist teacher. In the report of his mission to King Louis IX of France he recounted…
Departments
Points of Departure: Zen Buddhism With a Rinzai View
By Eido T. Shimano
Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service
By Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Continuous Mind
If we believe that mind is continuous, our love for others becomes continuous.
Negative Capability: Kerouac’s Buddhist Ethic
Jack Kerouac’s interest in Buddhism began after he spent some time with Neal Cassady, who had taken on an interest in the local California variety of New Age spiritualism, particularly the work of Edgar Cayce. Kerouac…
Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment Is a Religious Issue
Edited by Steven C. Rockefeller and John C. Elder
Letters to the Editor Fall 1992
MERTON NUTT From Spalding Gray’s interview with the Dalai Lama to Philip Glass and Khyentse Rinpoche, I have come to eagerly anticipate Tricycle‘s excellent interviews. But Harold Talbott on Thomas Merton is the very best yet!…
Platform Sutra 1992
As we go to press with our first anniversary issue, our late-night efforts have been interspersed with televised reports from the Democratic Convention at Madison Square Garden, just ten blocks from our office. The last four-day event…
Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender
Edited by José Ignacio Cabezón
In the News Fall 1992
MAD. AVE. STRIKES AGAIN How many Tibetan monks does it take to advertise PowerBook, the new laptop from Apple Computer, Inc.? According to a recent blitz of two-page ads, the correct answer is four—that’s not counting…
Documenting the Dalai Lama
A review of three documentaries on His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings
Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche’s Bardo Teachings
In one of his final teachings the Buddha introduced the idea of tathagatagarbha, the buddha essence within every sentient being. The teachings make it very clear that tathagatagarbha pervades all beings equally in quantity as well…
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
Mary Farkas
Mary Farkas (1911-1992) Mary Farkas, director of the First Zen Institute of America, died on June 7th in New York City. She was eighty-one years old and her long life embodied the transmission of Zen from…
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche
Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was recognized as an incarnation of the previous Jamgon Kongtrul of the Kagyu lineage.
Heart Print
Brice Marden's Cold Mountain Paintings
Letters to the Editor Fall 1992
PRACTICING FAITH I have no qualms about Mr. Batchelor’s agnosticism regarding reincarnation. His beliefs are quite reasonable. However, when he states that “an agnostic position toward death seems more compatible with an authentic spiritual attitude,” I wonder…
Books in Brief Fall 1992
Burton Watson, John Strong, and the I Ching
Zen Buddhism in the 20th Century
By Heinrich Dumoulin
The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature
By Michael Murphy