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Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Private: Pointy Rhinestone Glasses
Looking at Thailand
Accidents & Calculations
The Emergence of Three AIDS Hospices
Notebooks from Lhasa
Photos by Robert Rauscenberg
Anti-abortion/Pro-choice
Taking Both Sides
Jerry Garcia
Speaks with Barbara Meier
Freud and Dr. Buddha
The Search for Selflessness
Arizona Killing Fields
Monks from the East Meet Death in the West
Invisible Realities
An Interview with His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Into Emptiness
A Mother's Death
The Trials of Dandaron
Buddhist Perseverance in Russia
Departments
The Lion-Dog of Buddhist Asia
The imagery of mythic lions and pet dogs in Asian art spontaneously interbred to produce a fabulous litter of hybrid creatures of all shapes and sizes
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
Hongzhi called for a meditation completely free of grasping, that is, a meditation of "knowing without touching things," a technique perfected only as one finds inward illumination and body and mind drop away.
Ten Thousand Cups of Tea
When I traveled through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, I spent many hours in tea shops. To order in any of these countries, I needed to know only one word: chai. Few other words are shared…
In the News Spring 1992
FIRST PRIZE When Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest in Rangoon for the past two years, was named the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the news triggered massive protests against the repressive regime in…
IdeasMagazine | On Translation
When the Buddha Bowed Out
“Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not a very encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got…
Duane Michals
Photographer Duane Michals lives in New York; his books include Now Becoming Then (Twelvetrees Press).
IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
Rolling the Wheel
This episode of the life of Shakyamuni Buddha, as retold by Nikkyo Niwano, starts in Bodh-gaya following the Buddha’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. The decision to turn the dharma wheel initiates a teaching mission that…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Heart Sutra
Perhaps because of both its profundity and its brevity, the Heart Sutra is the most familiar of all the original teachings of the Buddha. (The Sino-Japanese version comprises a mere 262 characters.) Recited daily by Buddhists…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Spring 1992
ROHN PARSONS Free-lance generalist in the process of moving back to Japan with his family Charlotte, North Carolina “Some friends and I were discussing Tricycle, Buddhism, etc. I was asked, ‘What does…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Private: Pointy Rhinestone Glasses
Looking at Thailand
Sailing to Fusang
Did a Buddhist Monk "Discover" the New World?
Letters to the Editor Spring 1992
FUNNYBONE DHARMA Not only is the visual design of the Winter 1991 issue of Tricycle very pleasing, but the subject matter is diverse and provocative, a veritable feast of paradox. We are told by Khyentse Rinpoche…
The Formless Field of Benefaction
There was a time when the Heart Sutra evoked associations with Asian monastic rituals, and not Florida hospitals; and when “the great matter of life and death,” as the Zen tradition puts it, did not apply…
New and Noteworthy Texts In Translation
Debate in Tibetan Buddhism By Daniel Perdue. Snow Lion: Ithaca, 1992. 1,025 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). Debate is the investigative technique used in Tibetan monastic education to lead students through the intricacies of Buddhist philosophy, to sharpen…
Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery
Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. By Kenneth G. Zysk. Oxford University Press: New York, 1991. 200 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). The Buddhist tales about the legendary Indian physician, Jivaka, recount examples of…
New Mahayana: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World
New Mahayana: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World By Akizuki Ryomin. Translated by James W. Heisig and Paul L. Swanson. Asian Humanities Press: Berkeley, 1990. 193 pp. $12.00. Akizuki Ryomin’s reputation as a radical reformer of Buddhism in…
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings Aung San Suu Kyi Edited by Michael Aris Penguin: New York, 1991. 368 pp. $12.00 (paperback) July 20 is Martyrs’ Day in Burma, and to most Burmese it is a…
Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry
Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry Edited by Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 400 pp. $22.50 (paperback). During the last four decades a stream of Buddhist awareness has been flowing…
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet By Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman. Photographs by John Bigelow Taylor. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Tibet House, New York, in association with…
