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How Martin Luther King, Jr., brought satyagraha to the U.S. and revolutionized the civil rights movement.
By Charles JohnsonAn introduction to our special section, Satyagraha: The Force of Truth
By Helen Tworkov
Philip Glass talks with Tricycle about how Gandhi has inspired his life and work.
Interview with Philip Glass by Helen Tworkov
By applying Buddhist ideals to present-day issues, engaged Buddhism takes the dynamics of Gandhi’s work in an inspiring direction.
By Kenneth KraftGandhi’s lifelong engagement with human imperfection changed the future of politics.
By Mark Kurlansky
Fundamentalists here and abroad have been giving religion a bad rap lately, and so-called militant atheists have used the opportunity to take up the offensive. But according to prominent sociologist Robert N. Bellah, both sides have it wrong: they are mistaken about what religion actually is.
By Robert Bellah
Just as a seed contains the whole plant, the syllables of Siddham calligraphy are concentrations of enlightened energy. This holy script played a crucial role in the journey of Tantric Buddhism from ancient India to East Asia. Text and artwork by David Schneider
By David Schneider
What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?” B. Alan Wallace describes how misunderstanding the term can have implications for your practice.
By B. Alan Wallace
Getting Emptiness
By Peter ClothierFORGETTING THE FREAKS Andrew Goodwin’s review of Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great (Fall 2007) is slanted and confused. Although Goodwin applauds the book (except where it applies to Buddhism), he uses the review as a podium from which to preach his own hostile view of theism and religion, two separate if overlapping categories he […]
By Tricycle
After thirty years of practice, one meditator finds it’s gotten him nowhere. That’s just fine with him.
By Barry Evans
Ajaan Lee explains how the Buddha gave us the tools to free ourselves.
By Ajaan Lee
In an excerpt from her new book, Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate, Wendy Johnson recalls a personal pilgrimage across the mountains of Northern California.
By Wendy Johnson
Shaolin’s story
By Dan Zigmond
Artwork by An Xiao. Haiku by Andrew Schelling.
By TricycleUnderstanding the Buddha’s paradoxical view of reality
By Andrew Olendzki
Joseph Goldstein teaches that we can improve the way we relate to others—strangers and friends alike.
By Joseph Goldstein
What makes some countries happy as clams (or Icelanders).
By Joan Duncan Oliver
A dharma hall opens in a most unlikely place: the United States Air Force Academy.
By Travis Duncan
Taitetsu Unno teaches that Buddhism is the inclusive path of optimism.
By Taitetsu Unno
A guide to allowing a gentle and meaningful death for our loved ones and for ourselves, from Joan Halifax.
By Joan Halifax
Contributing editor Katy Butler speaks with renowned architect Christopher Alexander, who has spent decades investigating the source and forms of beauty. What he has found is a pathway to God.
Interview with Christopher Alexander by Katy Butler
Loving, one step at a time
By Andrew Merz
Joan Halifax, Zen teacher and Abbot of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, brought her experience as a pioneer in end-of-life field care to this issue’s “The Lucky Dark.” She says, “My work with dying people reminds […]
By Tricycle
How teenagers in an impoverished Parisian neighborhood discovered Buddhism and the courage to sustain hope.
By Mariane Pearl
A look at some of the latest Buddhist titles, hot off the presses.
By Sarah Todd
Practicing caring connection, Sylvia Boorstein learns, can bring peace—even under the threat of natural disaster.
By Sylvia BoorsteinIT IS TEMPTING, almost habitual, to view Gandhi through the prism of Western individualism, as a solitary leader who somehow lifted the entire Indian subcontinent on his shoulders and, David-like, took a stand against the Goliath of empires. But while there is no gainsaying Gandhi’s dedication and genius, if the approach to nonviolence he practiced […]
By James Shaheen
How are we meant to understand this key Buddhist teaching?
By David Loy