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After years of monastic collapse under the oppressive Khmer Rouge, Buddhist monkhood is emerging with renewed strength in Cambodia.
Zenshin Michael Haederle looks inside the meditating mind.
Marc Lesser on how to let go of the 5 things that waste your time
Neurologist and longtime Zen practitioner, James Austin, explains the self-defeating nature of human ego.
On my 70th Birthday in 2006
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
Featured contributors include Laura Fraser and Rollo Romig.
See the bigger picture
Trying new things
The importance of healthy boundaries
Even a moment of anger can be terribly damaging.
A mosquito helps find clarity in discomfort
A meditator reflects on falling out of practice—and finding a way back.
Dutch filmmaker Babeth VanLoo brings the dharma to TV.
Re: Sex
Cynthia Thatcher explores the teachings on happiness that the Buddha gave to Bahiya.
Practice the Bahiya teachings by observing the tactile sensation of motion.
On how we can add flexibility and choice to a meditation practice that has become rigid and restrictive
The Cambodian monk Maha Ghosananda was a world-famous humanitarian; he was also quite the character. Two years after Maha Ghosananda’s death, Andrew Cooper reflects on a friendship that was sometimes dizzying but always dear.
Ani Choying Drolma, Nepal’s famous “singing nun,” speaks about childhood abuse, the joys of doing good, and her Top Ten hit as a recording artist.
One of the West’s leading teachers of Shin Buddhism speaks about his own path to Shinran’s way of true entrusting.
Sean Murphy reports on the annual conference of the West’s largest Zen teacher network.
The summer fruit’s past lives as love potion and nightshade poison
The Buddha’s radical teachings on consciousness
Laura Fraser on practicing awareness in the kitchen
On a tour of the wilderness where the Buddha once wandered, SANDY BOUCHER learns that there’s more to the forest than peaceful contemplation.
A truth-teller’s vision for an interdependent world
A monk’s journey to find the reincarnation of his beloved teacher
Tricycle speaks with Israeli filmmaker Nati Baratz, the director of Unmistaken Child.
An aristocrat’s quest for Buddhist redemption
What is Buddhism? While the diversity of Buddhist schools of thought make it all but impossible to encapsulate the tradition in one book, the new collectionBUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY: ESSENTIAL READINGS (Oxford University Press, 2009, $24.95 paper, 480 pp.) is as comprehensive an attempt as any. Editors William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield, both philosophy professors, have […]
Fima Amos Oz (Mariner Books, 1994, 336 pp., $14.00 paper) “Fima got out of bed in his sweaty underwear, opened his shutters a crack, and looked out at the beginning of a winter day in Jerusalem.” I’ve read the novel Fima by Amos Oz three times, and yesterday I saw that everything I love about […]
Together Under One Roof: Making a Home of the Buddha’s Household Lin Jensen (Wisdom Publications, 2008, 288 pp., $16.95 paper) Bad Dog! A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Redemption in Dark Places Lin Jensen (Wisdom Publications, 2005, 288 pp., $15.95 paper) I’ve been listening to myself telling friends and colleagues about the Zen teacher Lin […]
