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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The ABC’s of Enlightenment
Gyokuko Carlson and Domyo Burk of Portland's Dharma Rain Zen Center on building a Dharma School
Samsara Dogs and Monkey Kings
Books for the junior Buddhist set, reviewed by Olivia Donstov, age 10
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Learning Compassion in the Sunshine State
Mary Talbot visits a Florida family forging a Buddhist life.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Introduction: Teaching Your Children Buddhist Values
Mary Talbot introduces Tricycle's special section, "Bringing Up Buddhists."
Bringing Up Buddhists: A Resource Guide
The best Buddhist books and websites.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Tough Loving-Kindness
Meditation teacher Peter Doobinin charts the Middle Way through New York City public schools.
Features
First There Is a Mountain (Then There Is No Mountain)
How science brought down the Buddha's Mount Meru.
Awake and Demented
Noelle Oxenhandler asks what happens when an aging mind practices mindfulness of its own decline.
Something to Offer
Disillusioned with fallen teachers, Eliot Fintushel finds renewed hope with Ezra Bayda. Illustrations by Benji Williams
Departments
The Movement With No Name
Entrepreneur and social activist Paul Hawken on how a nameless worldwide network of organizations has arisen to address today's global crises. Photographs by Terrence McCarthy
What to Expect When You’re Reflecting
Turning inward can help us reach out.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Silver Thread Broken
For the first time at Redwood Creek, the silver salmon didn't come home.
Repression and Freedom
Life in a modern Burmese prison
Equanimity in Every Bite
Shaila Catherine on how a balanced attitude can afford true happiness.
Miracle Worker
Artist Michael Daube turned one man's trash into a humanitarian treasure.
Investigating the Buddha’s World
Buddhist scholar and author John Peacock talks with Tricycle about what we can learn by taking a close look at the language and philosophies of the Buddha’s time.
Religious Thais
Nissara Horayangura looks to connect with Buddhist tradition in a rapidly changing city. Photography by Alison Wright.
Does China Need the Dalai Lama?
Tricycle speaks with Robert Thurman about his new book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters.
Surya Says
Ten spiritual observations from Lama Surya Das
Zen Men
Artist Jason illustrated the cover art for Penguin Classic’s Deluxe Edition of The Dharma Bums. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s 1958 Beat generation classic. His semiautobiographical novel traces the…
Letters to the Editor Fall 2008
HUMAN NATURE I read the interview with Jack Kornfield in the Summer 2008 edition of Tricycle with an eye toward his new book, The Wise Heart. I have always found attempts to merge Buddhism and Western…
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Long Journey to a Bow
Overcoming the last great obstacle to awakening: the conceit of self
Back Again, for the First Time
Almost three decades since his predecessor passed away in Illinois, the Seventeenth Karmapa takes his first trip to the West.
Contributors Fall 2008
MARTINE BATCHELOR’s article “What Is This?” describes the Korean Zen practice of questioning, exploring how to apply the traditional koan to contemporary habits of mind. She says, “Questioning gives you energy because there is no place…
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
What Is This?
Martine Batchelor offers a Korean Zen koan practice to refresh our minds and open us to creative wisdom.
31 Flavors of Craving
Phillip Moffitt explains the three categories of desire.
What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
Over the years, we’ve received countless inquires from media outlets, foundations, and the merely curious about Buddhist demographics: How many Buddhists are there in the United States? How many are converts? How many are immigrants or…
Books in Brief
MANY CONVERTS to Buddhism feel a lingering attachment to their original faiths even as they pursue the path to enlightenment. For those who try to make room in their lives for both menorahs and mu, Brenda…
Who Owns Tibet?
Mikel Dunham reviews Warren W. Smith's China's Tibet? Autonomy or Assimilation
CultureMagazine | Sangha Spotlight
Buddhism by the Numbers
What the Pew Forum report reveals about the face of American Buddhism - and how the results can help sanghas change and grow.
Talk When You Talk, Cry When You Cry
Thoughts On My Teacher: Natalie Goldberg remembers Allen Ginsberg