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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
Last year, on a whim, I went to fabled Malibu to an afternoon meditation retreat held by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and monk. I was skeptical, even cynical. I told my friend Jandro,…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Confessions of a White Buddhist
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Buddhists in America
A short, biased view
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
In the Name of Freedom
An extract from Thomas McCleary's translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Fifty-Three Temples In and Around Seattle
Dharma, Diversity, and Race
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Wearing the Words
An interview with Anna Deveare Smith
Features
Becoming Buddha: John Giorno
The life and times of poet John Giorno
Departments
CultureMagazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Fall 1994
Re: Children Responding to Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Interview
A Lama for All Seasons
An interview with Gelek Rinpoche
CultureMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Wake Up: Episode Six
The sixth excerpt in a series of eight from Jack Kerouac's Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Dharma Discourse: The Lotus Sutra
Expedient Means
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
Alan Watts Reconsidered
Alan Watts' remarkable journey from the young student who contacted the Buddhist Lodge to the independent scholar who helped introduce the East and Buddhism to a whole generation of Americans
Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master
In the News Fall 1994
Monastics killed in Cambodia, Naropa's 20th anniversary, and more in Buddhist news.
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
A Match to the Heart Gretel Ehrlich Pantheon: 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…
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: Taizan Maezumi Roshi
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: Pabongka Rinpoche
On the benefits of prostration as understood by Tibetan Buddhist lineages
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Heng Sure and Heng Ch’au
Two Buddhist monks reflect on a pilgrimage across California in which they vowed to bow in full prostration every three steps
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Sallie Tisdale
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
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi on learning to transcend dualistic ideas through the practice of bowing.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Jimmie Gilmore
Country artist Jimmie GIlmore on bowing and musical performance
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Bowing: Judith Lief
On the importance of prostration practice in Vajrayana Buddhism
Portraits of Tibetan Teachers
Photography pioneer Henri Cartier-Bresson and fellow Magnum-member Martine Franck photograph the Dalai Lama and Kalu Rinpoche
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…