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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Cyberdharma and the Net’s Vast Reach
John House, managing editor of Yahoo Internet Life, recounts his odyssey from an isolated buckwheat zafu to the vast interconnected reaches of dharma online.
Beyond the End of the Road
A remembrance of Rick Fields by his nephew.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Soka Gakkai—The Next Ten Years
In Japan Soka Gakkai has ten million followers and is the most dynamic Buddhist organization in that country. In America, it's among the fastest growing Buddhist traditions. Yet, its complex and tumultuous history has left it…
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Moments in American Buddhism
A timeline compiled by Jeff Wilson.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Zen and Then
A Zen priest looks at the growing pains of Zen after a half-century of evolution in the West.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Lex Hixon: “In the Spirit”
Remembering the host of WBAI's influential radio show
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Won’t it be Grand?
An itinerant translator and lama visualizes her wish list for the unfolding of Vajrayana in the West.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Dharma and Psychotherapy
As Buddhist teachings on suffering and the nature of self continue to spread in the West, psychotherapists have begun to recover the spiritual possibilities inherent in their work.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Last Ten Years
Remembering Allen Ginsberg, Masatoshi Nagatomi, Rick Fields, and Lex Hixon.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Hunting and Gathering the Dharma
An American abbot in California, trained in the Thai Forest tradition, chooses the fringes of wilderness over domesticated urban Buddhism and extols the virtues of the wandering, mendicant monk.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Pure Land in the New World
For 150 years, the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) was the almost exclusive domain of Japanese Americans. Now, with an increasingly diversified membership and new publications on Pure Land teachings, the BCA is riding the winds…
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Ethics for a Secular Millennium
An Interview With His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Masatoshi Nagatomi Remembered
“You bow like a Japanese,” Masatoshi Nagatomi told me with his characteristic giggle. Thus began nine years of mentoring in Buddhist studies until his passing last year. He assured my worried Japanese mother that I would…
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Vipassana or vipassana: Clear Seeing in Ten Years
The last thirty years have seen an exponential growth of the Western Vipassana community. As every indication is that this will continue, what developments can we expect over the next ten years?
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
If the Buddha Could be Cloned
A well-respected Buddhist teacher once humorously remarked, "If the Buddha could be cloned, great!"
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Scott Hunt’s Seaworthy Dream In Two Parts
A thirty-four-year-old dharma teacher provides a daring look at some old obstacles and new opportunities that attend seeding Buddha-dharma in the West.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
“Letter to the Wall Street Journal,” 1966
Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at…
Features
Where Does it End?
Noelle Oxenhandler reflects on coming into practice along the trickster path.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
First Cut
Tom Drury explores the dream of home in a story about families, past and present.
Mothering as Meditation Practice
With the birth of her son, Anne Cushman began negotiating the dance between practice and parenting. She asks, "Are mothers changing the forms of Buddhism in America?"
Departments
A Monk Dressing
Luang Prabang, a small city on the banks of the Mekong River in Laos, with its concentration of temples and monasteries, is home to a rich Buddhist culture. Photographer Hans Georg Berger, the first Western artist…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Gardening
The Three Sisters
I dreamed that dream again, the scary one that comes down like a silent raptor in the late watches of the summer night, around the August full moon. I wake up in a cold sweat, pinned…
Thrown from a Moving Train
Francisco Varela (1946-2001)
Francisco Varela, eminent biologist and co-founder of the Mind & Life Institute, died in Paris in May after a long struggle with liver cancer. He found death in peace, meditating into his final hours, and surrounded…
Letters to the Editor Fall 2001
Tricycle welcomes letters to the editor. Letters are subject to editing. Please send correspondence to: Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 92 Vandam Street New York, NY 10013 Fax: (212) 645-1493 editorial@tricycle.com Willing and Able Thanks for those…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Taking Your Future Into Your Own Hands
All sentient beings without a single exception have buddha nature, from the dharmakaya buddha down to the tiniest insect. There is no real difference in the quality or size of this enlightened essence between individuals. However,…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
Eight Pedals of a California Lotus
Allan Hunt Badiner on unsung heroes who are making a difference.
Phantom Moon’ by Duncan Sheik
Phantom MoonDuncan Sheik Atlantic/Nonesuch, 2001 In 1996, when Duncan Sheik released his first album, he made success look easy. But soon there was a backlash, and when his second album failed to sell as quickly as…
‘A New Religious America’ and ‘The Transformation of American Religion’
A New Religious America:How a Christian Country Has Become the World’s Most Diverse Nationby Diana L. EckHarperSanFrancisco, 2001320 pp.; $26.00 (cloth) The Transformation of American Religion: The Story of a Late-Twentieth-Century Awakening by Amanda Porterfield Oxford…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Opening to Practice
About ten years ago, a man gave me a copy of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. He leaned into my face and in a low, conspiratorial voice, said, “This book will change your…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Sitting on the Fence
In order to practice, we have to surrender, we have to take a risk. Otherwise what we’re doing is standing back in order to judge, in order to feel superior. Often the obstacle is fear: we…
In Celebration of Beginnings
A letter from Tricycle’s founding editor, Helen Tworkov
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Getting Started
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana writes that the Buddha's path extinguishes suffering, but only if we are dedicated to practice. We must confront the roots of resistance and craving right here, right now.
Contributors Fall 2001
Noelle Oxenhandler, who wonders just when and how her practice path opened up, tells us: “For me, writing this essay was like that wonderful children’s story Harold and the Purple Crayon. It was as though I…
‘Himalaya’ by Eric Valli
HimalayaKino International, 2001Directed by Eric Valli109 minutes, in Tibetan with English subtitles When Eric Valli, a photographer for National Geographic, author, and documentarian, got the urge to film a salt caravan in the Dolpo region of…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | My View
“Spirituality” Versus “Religion”
Huston Smith, the grand master of world religions, speaks to Tricycle about his current concerns
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Coming to Practice
Reflections on the necessity of practice by teachers, poets, and practitioners.
Aural Transmission
Joan Duncan Oliver on the audio publisher Sounds True.
Television Comes to Shangri-la
For centuries, the kingdom of Bhutan has shrouded itself in a self-imposed isolation that began to lift only in the 1960s, and even then only slowly. Tightly wedged between the world’s two most populous nations, India…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
The Teacher in Everything
Tangle your eyebrows with your ancestral teachers and Robert Aitkin Roshi and laugh at Shunryu Suzuki Roshi's unexpected counsels to beginning Zen students.
Ten Years, One Page at a Time
Jeff Zaleski Interviews Tricycle's Editor, Helen Tworkov
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Discovering the Sky
After my freshman year, inspired by Thoreau, I retreated to the woods of Vermont where I went on long walks, came alive to colors, dreamt out all my bad dreams, and wrote poetry. I had found…
Books in Brief Fall 2001
Letting Go:The Story of Zen Master Tosui Translated, with an introduction by Peter HaskelUniv. of Hawai’i Press: Honolulu, 2001 184 pp.; $19.95 (paper) Here is the first translation of Menzan Zuiho’s Tribute, the biography of eccentric…
Untitled, 1952
“One day I was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked up I saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows and the walls, and finally…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting
Cartoon As Path
Jonathan (nine years old) reads to us from his favorite comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes. First panel: young Calvin’s teacher gives him a math problem. Next: Calvin stares at the problem, dumbfounded. Final panel: Calvin, dressed…
Sanghamitta
Few disciples were as important as Sanghamitta in the early history of Buddhism. As a young nun, Sanghamitta fearlessly set sail from India to Sri Lanka, where she helped establish Theravada Buddhism.
Burma
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Columns
Change Your Mind Day 2001
At the first Change Your Mind Day in 1994, a few hundred people gathered in New York City’s Central Park for a day of free meditation instruction. Since then, participation in the event has spread to…
Death and Taxes
Compassionate Conservatism. The words sounded promising in the early days of the presidential campaign. Compassion must be the bedrock of any Buddhist politics, and validating it as a core value of the Republican Party seemed a…
10th Anniversary Thank You
On the occasion of our tenth anniversary, the board of directors of Tricycle wishes to express its wholehearted gratitude to those friends, foundations, and businesses who have played a crucial role in our journey during this…
Buddhism: Does it Make a Difference?
The Tricycle Conference