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Back Issues
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
Contributors include Sam Mowe and Rhonda Magee; cartoons from Barry Blitt; and photographs from Maria de la Guardia.
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
In a country where Buddhism is on the decline, Zen priest Haemin Sunim has managed to reach millions.
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.
The Western Buddhist landscape has been shaped in part by generations of alumni of Antioch University’s study abroad program in Bodhgaya, India.
Q&A with Tenku Ruff, Osho, a Zen priest in New York and president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.
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.
A survivor of domestic violence seeks to reform Thai society by focusing on trauma, gender, and sexuality.
A century after a German artistic movement’s birth, its spirit finds a new home in Northern India.
Contestants square off and navigate distractions in an interactive installation to see who has the calmest mind.
The latest in Buddhist publishing plus a book worth rereading
Podcasts, a guided meditation, and music no Buddhist listener should miss
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.
In bringing contemporary design to a Tibetan Buddhist center, an architect finds a foundation for his own practice.
An inside look at the daily activities of the monk behind Mindfulness in Plain English
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.
Select wisdom from sources old and new
When we’re tempted to give up, a simple shift in perspective can remind us that everything we do matters.
A law professor offers a practice to uncover our own biases and face the realities of racism.
The meaning of karma.
How to recognize it, work with it, and even find wisdom in it.
The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.
A Zen priest and scholar considers the role of aesthetics in a renunciant tradition.
Classically trained painter Tsherin Sherpa envisions the survival of a displaced Tibetan tradition.
Purists discourage mixing traditions, but research reveals that the origins of one of today’s most popular Indian practices aren’t so clear-cut.
Recalling his friendships with Norman Mailer and Samuel Beckett, a Zen student and writer grapples with a central Buddhist teaching.
A new father’s pilgrimage to a sacred Japanese mountain inspires a meditation on awakening, parenthood, and what we pass on.
A former monk gains renown as one of the first openly transgender people in the Tibetan community, opening the door to acceptance.
How together Eastern and Western philosophical traditions can create a richer map of the self
Three scholars on the mindfulness movement: what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and its surprising history.
Parting words from Izumi Shikibu