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The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker
How can Western intellectuals have so much blood on their hands? Pankaj Mishra blames an ideologically driven faith in our ability to control history.
The Buddhist Review
Back IssuesHow can Western intellectuals have so much blood on their hands? Pankaj Mishra blames an ideologically driven faith in our ability to control history.
Vishvapani travels across India to witness thousands of the nation’s underclass take refuge in a new form of Buddhism and break free from the oppressive caste system.
Vicki Mackenzie investigates the mystery of Buddhist relics.
How do you recognize an authentic spiritual teacher? By honestly facing up to this age-old question, philosopher Jacob Needleman and his students discover an unexpected truth.
Take Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge and go on retreat without leaving home.
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Getting the most from your seated meditation
Working with Metta
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tips for working with hindrances in daily life
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
Tricycle’s 28-day meditation challenge
7 Exercises for Taking Your Practice into the World
Featured contributors include Pankaj Mishra, Michael Schumacher, Jacob Needleman, Vicki Mackenzie, and Vishvapani.
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Lin Jensen explains the trouble with attributing spiritual significance to the simple activities of our lives.
Ch’an Master Sheng Yen comments on two lines of the beloved sixth-century poem the Hsin Hsin Ming, or “Faith in Mind,” by the third Zen patriarch, Seng Ts’an.
The ten harmful activities
Recognizing the fleeting nature of the world.
Reverend Chan Tu on her relationship with the late most Venerable Dr. Thich Man Giac, Supreme Patriarch of the Vietnamese United Buddhist Churches of America, who passed away October 13, 2006, at the age of 77
Awakening to an unconditional love
A physicist sees science as spiritual practice
Life lessons from a cadaver
With Tibetan Buddhism and Carl Jung as his guides, Rob Preece takes us on a journey to freedom.
Marcia Lieberman documents the private space of meditation.
Understanding the wisdom of the great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna with the help of three pivotal Western thinkers
The Buddha’s liberating teaching of interdependent origination.
The secret life of bees
Kurosawa and the insubstantial self
Ginsberg’s long path to Howl
Reasserting the fundamentals
Tales from the Upper-Middle Path
How do you take an ancient text written in a dead language and reveal its wisdom to the English-speaking world? Pali Scholar Dr. Peter Masefield discusses the toil and exhilaration of translating the Buddha’s words with Stephen A. Evans.
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