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Back Issues
An introduction to our 25th anniversary special section
Contributors revisit cornerstone topics.
E. Ethelbert Miller interviews scholar Charles Johnson.
And why it’s high time to break through it
Two new perspectives
The Question: Tricycle asks nine teachers: how have your personal practice and community evolved over the past 25 years?
Four teachers discuss the role of the dharma in today’s cultural climate.
American Buddhism in 2016
Buddhism has reached the far corners of the globe. Here are just a few unexpected places that are playing host to thriving sanghas in 2016. Anchorage Zen Community Location: Anchorage, Alaska Date of Founding: 1986 Lineage: Soto Zen Head Teacher: Rev. Genmyo Zeedyk www.alaska-zen.org Casa Zen de Costa Rica Location: Santo Domingo de […]
A Buddhist chaplain at the bedside of a Catholic patient
A gardener on managing our need to manage
Leath Tonino interviews avalanche forecaster Jerry Roberts
Sometimes a forbidden soak is just what you need—to find peace.
Radio host Lex Hixon’s conversation with the American Zen pioneer
Modern Buddhists often resist embracing ritual practice. But by working with our resistance, we can open ourselves to ritual’s liberatory potential.
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
Featured contributors include E. Ethelbert Miller, Leath Tonino, and Minette Lee Mangahas.
All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Q&A with Lhakpa Sherpa, who holds the women’s record for most Everest summits
Can putting an end to the endless pursuit of becoming someone imbue our lives with meaning?
The Buddhist concept that explains why you keep doing the same thing over and over—and the practice that shows you how to stop
Douglas Penick interviews Lama Chopel.
Andrew Schelling on a new biography of Philip Whalen
Noelle Oxenhandler reviews the latest project of Zen priest Ruth Ozeki.
In the tradition of Mary Oliver and David Whyte, Dick Allen’s Zen Master Poems (Wisdom Publications, August 2016, $14.00, 152 pp., paper) offers spiritual insights in lucid, seemingly effortless verse. Most poems in the collection are a page in length with short, four- or five-word lines, allowing each poem in the collection to function […]
Caitlin Van Dusen tries three meditation apps.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. ♦ Translated by Robert Aitken Roshi, © the estate of Robert Aitken Roshi. All rights reserved.
An excerpt from Tara Cottrell and Dan Zigmond’s new book Buddha’s Diet
Columnist Wendy Johnson uses a garden as a teaching tool to illustrate the eightfold path.
Andrew Olendzki on the verses of courtesan and poet Ambapali