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Gyokuko Carlson and Domyo Burk of Portland’s Dharma Rain Zen Center on building a Dharma School
Books for the junior Buddhist set, reviewed by Olivia Donstov, age 10
Mary Talbot visits a Florida family forging a Buddhist life.
Mary Talbot introduces Tricycle’s special section, “Bringing Up Buddhists.”
The best Buddhist books and websites.
Meditation teacher Peter Doobinin charts the Middle Way through New York City public schools.
How science brought down the Buddha’s Mount Meru.
Noelle Oxenhandler asks what happens when an aging mind practices mindfulness of its own decline.
Disillusioned with fallen teachers, Eliot Fintushel finds renewed hope with Ezra Bayda. Illustrations by Benji Williams
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
Turning inward can help us reach out.
For the first time at Redwood Creek, the silver salmon didn’t come home.
Life in a modern Burmese prison
Shaila Catherine on how a balanced attitude can afford true happiness.
Artist Michael Daube turned one man’s trash into a humanitarian treasure.
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.
Nissara Horayangura looks to connect with Buddhist tradition in a rapidly changing city. Photography by Alison Wright.
Tricycle speaks with Robert Thurman about his new book, Why the Dalai Lama Matters.
Ten spiritual observations from Lama Surya Das
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 exploits of narrator Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder (based on Kerouac and poet Gary Snyder) as they pursue the […]
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 psychology disappointing. In the same edition of Tricycle, Robert Aitken echoes my suspicions in his response to “The Question”: […]
Overcoming the last great obstacle to awakening: the conceit of self
Almost three decades since his predecessor passed away in Illinois, the Seventeenth Karmapa takes his first trip to the West.
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 for the mind to rest. It allows for more possibilities and less certainty. If you meditate in this way, […]
Martine Batchelor offers a Korean Zen koan practice to refresh our minds and open us to creative wisdom.
Phillip Moffitt explains the three categories of desire.
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 Americans of Asian descent who continue to practice in the traditions of their parents? We’ve never been qualified to […]
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 Shoshanna’sJewish Dharma: A Guide to the Practice of Judaism and Zen (Da Capo Press, 2008, $25.00 cloth, 320 pp.) […]
Mikel Dunham reviews Warren W. Smith’s China’s Tibet? Autonomy or Assimilation
What the Pew Forum report reveals about the face of American Buddhism – and how the results can help sanghas change and grow.
Thoughts On My Teacher: Natalie Goldberg remembers Allen Ginsberg