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Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
The Life and Times of Poet John Giorno
Josh Ikeda-Nash, age 5Oakland, California “What I want to know is, why were there two buddhas at the end? And I liked the part where Mara threw fireballs at Buddha. I think Buddha is the best person. Buddha and Martin Luther King Jr.” Courtney Flynn, age 8Boston, Massachusetts“I would be honored for being picked to […]
An Interview with Gelek Rinpoche
Episode Six
Expedient Means
At the meditation center where I used to practice, my teacher told a story about a time when he had lived in Korea and studied with a Zen monk. One of the nuns in the community had died, and at her funeral the monk wept uncontrollably and hysterically, in a way that was almost embarrassing. […]
Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master
Change Your Mind On May 14, Tricycle offered “Change Your Mind,” an all-day public program of meditation instruction held on a sloping meadow in New York’s Central Park. Tibetan rinpoches, Theravadin masters from Sri Lanka and Cambodia, Zen masters from Korea and China, and American-born teachers from the three main Buddhist traditions gave short talks […]
Superhighway At first glance I was disappointed that Tricycle should attempt to add to the glut of information about the information superhighway (Vol. III, No. 4). Between the likes of Wired and Time, it seemed that, at the very least, Tricycle could only be reductive and repetitive. Wrong. Once again, your approach to a contemporary […]
A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World
Buddhist Loving-Kindness Practice for Christians
From the Record of the Chan Master “Gate of the Clouds”
Gretel EhrlichPantheon: New York, 1994.200 pp., $21.00 (cloth). In August 1991, the writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning, flung across a remote mountain road on her ranch in Wyoming, and left for dead. She had been struck before—had even written about being struck before—but this time it was a fatal blow, and even […]
A Poet’s Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
A Review of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha
A Guide to Compassionate Living
A Practical Approach to Modern Life
Dogen Zenji once said: “As long as there is true bowing, the Buddha Way will not deteriorate.” In bowing, we totally pay respect to the all-pervading virtue of wisdom, which is the Buddha. In making the bow, we should move neither hastily nor sluggishly but simply maintain a reverent mind and humble attitude. When we […]
The benefits of prostrating are these. The Sutra for Classifying Karma mentions ten benefits—one will have a handsome body, a golden complexion, and so on. Other sutras say that one acquires the merit to become a world emperor for each atom in the ground covered by one’s body. The semi-prostration was discussed in the Tantras; […]
Two American Buddhist monks, Heng Sure and Heng Ch’au, undertook a pilgrimage in 1977 with vows to bow to the ground in full prostration every three steps. Beginning at Gold Wheel Temple, the Los Angeles branch of the Sino-American Buddhist Association, the two monks traversed eight hundred miles over a two-and-a-half-year period before arriving at […]
When in doubt, bow. So I was told when I began Zen practice, and it’s advice I still follow. I’ve never forgotten the anxiety I felt then, new to the zendo and terribly afraid of making a mistake—tripping, belching, standing when I should sit or sitting when I should stand. I bowed a lot. After […]
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi on learning to transcend dualistic ideas through the practice of bowing.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been singing for over thirty years in a style that blends Eastern ideas with acoustic folk and country music. Rolling Stone has named him Best Country Artist for the past three years and last year his album Spinning Around the Sun was nominated for a Grammy Award. In the mid-seventies, he received […]
In Asia, prostrating is a familiar expression of deep respect. In India, it is customary to honor one’s parents by prostrating at their feet. Tibetans wouldn’t consider approaching a major teacher without prostrating. In turn, teachers often begin their instructions with a bow. However, as Westerners we tend to think of prostrating as a gesture […]
Born in France in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the first photographers to use the 35mm camera. In 1947, he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum Photo Agency. In May, he received the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award for Master of Photography. Martine Franck, raised in the United States and […]
This issue’s special section, Dharma, Diversity, and Race, suggests that little dialogue exists among Asian-American Buddhist communities, and between those communities and Americans new to Buddhism. Not coincidentally, in the very absence of dialogue lies the heart of the question: is the unfolding of Buddhism in this country evolving into something called “American Buddhism”; and […]