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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
If I Were the Buddha
A story by Anne Jeffries
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Above and Beyond Rangoon
Doug Booth travels to an ancient monastery in Burma for a vipassana retreat where he combats mosquitoes and materialism
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Politics
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry made his famous declaration at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 and it was…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Accepting the Invitation
Charles Johnson suggests that we take to heart Benjamin Franklin’s challenge: “Democracy is an invitation to struggle.”
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Faith in Freedom
That meditation is a moral practice, not just a psychic one, was not immediately clear to me when I began to sit. I understood intellectually, but not intuitively, that Buddhist psychology defines an intimate relationship…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Whose Corruption and Whose Compassion?
Russell C. Leong takes a closer look at the Hsi Lai Temple controversy and asks: Are Asian Americans being singled out again?
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Hsi Lai: Politics Not as Usual
Sure, illegal fund-raising occurred at the Buddhist temple. But is this really why it has become a political football?
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Should Buddhists Vote?
An American Tibetan nun looks at how Buddhists can become wise citizens
Features
No Justice, No Peace
In court: Lawyers and judges who practice dharma
Ikebana
Joan D. Stamm on how the Japanese art of flower arranging reveals the intrinsic unity of nature, art, and religion.
Evolution’s Body
In the Samyutta Nikaya, the Buddha says, “This body is not mine or anyone else’s. It has arisen due to past causes and conditions.” The Buddha intuited some type of evolutionary process that creates our bodies,…
Departments
Bringing Buddha to the West
GI Joe, the country’s first action hero doll, has been around since 1964. Created by the toy company Hasbro, GI Joe was their answer to the overwhelming success of the Barbie doll, who had debuted…
Thunder and Lightning
Amy Gross reviews Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
Letters to the Editor Fall 2000
Sacred Bulls I have read your magazine for years, and I was completely taken aback to see such a thing as this open letter to the pope (Summer 2000). I have been a Tibetan Buddhist/ dzogchen…
The Search for the Panchen Lama
The Search for the Panchen LamaBy Isabel HiltionW.W. Norton and Co., 2000336 pp.; $25.95 (cloth) In 1996 I was sent by Vanity Fair to Dharamsala, India, to interview the Dalai Lama about the abduction of…
Still Here
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying Ram DassRiverhead Books, 2000206 pp.; $22.22 (cloth) With Still Here, Ram Dass has written what is arguably his best book since his countercultural best-sellerBe Here Now. He calls himself and “advance…
Philip Glass on Symphony No. 5: Requiem, Bardo, and Nirmanakaya
Dimitri Ehrlich speaks with the composer about his millenial work, which begins its tour of the United States in October.
The Diamond Cutter
The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your LifeGeshe Michael RoachDoubleday, 2000228 pp.; $21.95 (cloth) Michael Roach is the first American to complete the twenty years of rigorous study and examinations…
Old Wine, New Bottles
An interview with Lama Surya Das
The Spiritual Path
The Spiritual PathBy Han F. de WitDuquesne University Press, 1999312 pp.; $21.95 Han de Wit’s earlier book, Contemplative Psychology, served two main purposes: First, a theoretical analysis was undertaken that brought the contemplative thinking of the…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Ancestors
An Anthropologist Monk: Colin M. Turnbull
In an essay found on Colin Turnbull's computer following his death from AIDS in 1994, this internationally known author of The Forest People writes of becoming a Tibetan monk—and of the qualities of Buddha-nature that he…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
The Eightfold Garden
The garden, wrote British author Thomas Hill in 1577, is a “ground plot for the mind.” Granted, “but also for the heart,” I reckon early this morning, down on my hands and knees, weeding the…
IdeasMagazine | On Translation
How the Buddha Got Ism-ed
Dwight Eisenhower, a president not particularly remembered for his wit, once remarked that “all isms are wasms.” He was presumably referring, rather presciently, to the largely forgotten isms that were once perceived as a threat to…
News: Fall 2000
Change Your Mind Day In 1994 a few hundred people gathered in Central Park to attend Tricycle’s first Change Your Mind Day. The magazine’s board had agreed on a day of free Buddhist meditation instruction as…
Getting Lucky
With the presidential election approaching, Tricycle presents a special section, “Politics 2000”, to explore some of the religious and racial aspects specific to this election (see the discussion of Hsi Lai Temple by both Gustav Niebuhr…
Contributors Fall 2000
Charles Johnson won the 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle Passage. He has written three other novels, a collection of short stories, numerous critical books and reviews, and is a published…
In Search of the Medicine Buddha
Book Review
Books in Brief Fall 2000
Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist NunThubten Chadron, EditorNorth Atlantic Books, 2000; $16.95 A compilation of talks given by nuns at a three-week conferenee—“Life as a Western Buddhist Nun” –in Bodhgaya, India, in 1996. As…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Birth and Death
13th-century Japanese Zen Master Dogen on why in Buddha-dharma birth is understood as No-birth, and death is understood as No-death.
Tournament of Shadows
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and Race for Empire in Central AsiaKarl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair BrysacCounterpoint, 1999646 pp., $35 (cloth) The Tournament of Shadows was the Russian name for the contest the British…