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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Waking up to Racism
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Sweet and Sour Buddhism
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Litany
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Confessions of a White Buddhist
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Buddhists in America: A Short Biased View
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
In the Name of Freedom
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Fifty-Three Temples In and Around Seattle
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Wearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
Features
Becoming Buddha: John Giorno
The Life and Times of Poet John Giorno
Departments
CultureMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
Re: Children Responding to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha
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…
A Lama for All Seasons
An interview with Gelek Rinpoche
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up
Episode Six
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Dharma Discourse: The Lotus Sutra
Expedient Means
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
Alan Watts Reconsidered
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…
Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master
In the News Fall 1994
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…
Letters to the Editor Fall 1994
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,…
Handbook of Tibetan Culture
A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World
Gentling the Heart
Buddhist Loving-Kindness Practice for Christians
Master Yunmen
From the Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds"
A Match to the Heart
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…
The Jew in the Lotus
A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
Buddha and Sid’s Excellent Adventure
A Review of Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha
Start Where You Are
A Guide to Compassionate Living
Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up
A Practical Approach to Modern Life
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing
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…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Tibetan Prostration
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…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Heng Sure and Heng Ch’au on Bowing
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…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing
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…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi on learning to transcend dualistic ideas through the practice of bowing.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
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…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Prostrations
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…
Portraits of Tibetan Teachers
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…
What Color is Your Mind?
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…