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Back Issues
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By The Editors
Contributors include Sam Mowe and Rhonda Magee; cartoons from Barry Blitt; and photographs from Maria de la Guardia.
By The Editors
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
By James Shaheen
In a country where Buddhism is on the decline, Zen priest Haemin Sunim has managed to reach millions.
By Emma Varvaloucas
The number of South Korean Buddhists and Buddhist temples, the country’s highest pagoda, the number of temples participating in Templestay, and more data on Buddhism in South Korea.
By The Editors
The Western Buddhist landscape has been shaped in part by generations of alumni of Antioch University’s study abroad program in Bodhgaya, India.
By Eliza Rockefeller
Q&A with Tenku Ruff, Osho, a Zen priest in New York and president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.
By The Editors
Justin von Bujdoss, a Buddhist teacher and the author of the upcoming Modern Tantric Buddhism, explains that retreats away aren’t necessary for spiritual development.
By Repa Dorje Odzer (Justin von Bujdoss)
A survivor of domestic violence seeks to reform Thai society by focusing on trauma, gender, and sexuality.
By Caitlin Dwyer
A century after a German artistic movement’s birth, its spirit finds a new home in Northern India.
By Julia Hirsch
Contestants square off and navigate distractions in an interactive installation to see who has the calmest mind.
By Matthew Abrahams
The latest in Buddhist publishing plus a book worth rereading
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Podcasts, a guided meditation, and music no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Dawa Tarchin Phillips, senior Buddhist teacher, author, researcher, and president and CEO of a mindful leadership training firm, talks about what Buddhist book has made a significant impact on his practice.
By Dawa Tarchin Phillips
In bringing contemporary design to a Tibetan Buddhist center, an architect finds a foundation for his own practice.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
An inside look at the daily activities of the monk behind Mindfulness in Plain English
Photographs by Susana Raab
The City of Brotherly Love is best known for its cheesesteak and the Liberty Bell, but the town’s hidden pockets of tranquility will surprise you.
By Samuel Newhouse
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
When we’re tempted to give up, a simple shift in perspective can remind us that everything we do matters.
By Pema Chödrön
A law professor offers a practice to uncover our own biases and face the realities of racism.
By Rhonda Magee
The meaning of karma.
By Andrew Olendzki
How to recognize it, work with it, and even find wisdom in it.
By Ken McLeod, Illustrations by Patrick Leger
The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.
By Sandy Boucher
A Zen priest and scholar considers the role of aesthetics in a renunciant tradition.
By Kurt Spellmeyer, Photographs by Michael Kenna
Classically trained painter Tsherin Sherpa envisions the survival of a displaced Tibetan tradition.
By Emily DeMaioNewton
Purists discourage mixing traditions, but research reveals that the origins of one of today’s most popular Indian practices aren’t so clear-cut.
By Matthew Gindin, photographs by Francesco Mastalia
Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.
By Lawrence Shainberg, Illustration by Barry Blitt
A new father’s pilgrimage to a sacred Japanese mountain inspires a meditation on awakening, parenthood, and what we pass on.
By Sam Mowe
A former monk gains renown as one of the first openly transgender people in the Tibetan community, opening the door to acceptance.
By Lakshmi Gandhi, Photograph by Maria de la Guardia
How together Eastern and Western philosophical traditions can create a richer map of the self
By Matthew Abrahams
Three scholars on the mindfulness movement: what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and its surprising history.
By C. Pierce Salguero
Parting words from Izumi Shikibu
By Izumi Shikibu