Special Section
Satyagraha Special Section: Blueprints of Freedom
How Martin Luther King, Jr., brought satyagraha to the U.S. and revolutionized the civil rights movement.
By Charles JohnsonThe Buddhist Review
Back IssuesHow 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 TworkovPhilip Glass talks with Tricycle about how Gandhi has inspired his life and work.
Interview with Philip Glass by Helen TworkovBy 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 KurlanskyFundamentalists 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 BellahJust 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 SchneiderWhat did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness?” B. Alan Wallace describes how misunderstanding the term can have implications for your practice.
By B. Alan WallaceGetting 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 TricycleAfter thirty years of practice, one meditator finds it’s gotten him nowhere. That’s just fine with him.
By Barry EvansAjaan Lee explains how the Buddha gave us the tools to free ourselves.
By Ajaan LeeIn 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 JohnsonShaolin’s story
By Dan ZigmondArtwork by An Xiao. Haiku by Andrew Schelling.
By TricycleUnderstanding the Buddha’s paradoxical view of reality
By Andrew OlendzkiJoseph Goldstein teaches that we can improve the way we relate to others—strangers and friends alike.
By Joseph GoldsteinWhat makes some countries happy as clams (or Icelanders).
By Joan Duncan OliverA dharma hall opens in a most unlikely place: the United States Air Force Academy.
By Travis DuncanTaitetsu Unno teaches that Buddhism is the inclusive path of optimism.
By Taitetsu UnnoA guide to allowing a gentle and meaningful death for our loved ones and for ourselves, from Joan Halifax.
By Joan HalifaxContributing 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 ButlerLoving, one step at a time
By Andrew MerzJoan 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 TricycleHow teenagers in an impoverished Parisian neighborhood discovered Buddhism and the courage to sustain hope.
By Mariane PearlA look at some of the latest Buddhist titles, hot off the presses.
By Sarah ToddPracticing 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 ShaheenHow are we meant to understand this key Buddhist teaching?
By David Loy