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The Buddhist Review
Back IssuesExploring a growing cultural phenomenon that is here to stay
Past and Present
Can “pop spiritualities” be truly transformative?
Four young adults explain how they mix and match Buddhism with other religious traditions.
How mindfulness became the Buddhist fulfillment of a Protestant dream
Teaching spirituality and religion to millennials
The Buddha’s radical inclusivity suggests it is.
Buddhist reflections on the secular
Zen’s Challenge to An Individual, Interior Spirituality
A secular reimagining of the dharma may help us face political calamity.
A writer comes to grips with her illusions about Tibet’s capital city versus its reality.
New translations of ancient Indian verses
A Zen reading of a biblical saying
All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more
How to change the way we interact with those who anger us
Featured contributors include Judith Hertog, Kristiin Wilson, and Lisa Webster.
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
After 40 years, the remarkable story of Freda Bedi, the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.
Q&A with Denise Di Novi, Hollywood director, producer, and Buddhist teacher
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
We review three niche apps: Walking Meditations, Take a Chill, and Thync
An interview with Dr. Karma Phuntsho, the first Bhutanese to earn a doctorate at Oxford who now works to promote social entrepreneurship among the nation’s youth.
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Selections from Haemin Sunim’s new book
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Attention is not just another “function” alongside other cognitive functions. Its ontological status is of something prior to functions and even to things. The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the nature of the world we attend to, the very nature of the world in which those “functions” would be […]
My father spent two years in concentration camps—first Auschwitz, then Buchenwald, then a smaller camp in the Black Forest. No, that does not mean I am Jewish—he was a Catholic Pole living in Warsaw, turned in to the Gestapo by an orphan boy he had assisted and arrested for his role in helping to publish […]
The night is bitter cold, the temple an icebox. Winter grips the land and the monks shiver. A wanderer arrives, hoping to defrost a bit, maybe have a cup of tea. Problem is, the fire’s gone dead and there’s no fuel left, not even a twig. This frozen, road-weary guy finds a nice big wooden […]
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. –Soren Kierkegaard The ancient Greeks, who put the power of Fate above that of Zeus himself, foresaw our own unpredestinate perspective in their metaphor for how we move toward the future. We do not, they believed, move forward into the future, as if crossing […]