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Exploring a growing cultural phenomenon that is here to stay
Guest Edited by Lisa Webster, Photography by Kristiina Wilson
Past and Present
By William B. Parsons
Can “pop spiritualities” be truly transformative?
By Andrea Jain
Four young adults explain how they mix and match Buddhism with other religious traditions.
By Kaya Oakes, Photography by Kristiina Wilson
How mindfulness became the Buddhist fulfillment of a Protestant dream
By Matthew Hedstrom
Teaching spirituality and religion to millennials
By Diane Winston
The Buddha’s radical inclusivity suggests it is.
By Kurt Spellmeyer
Buddhist reflections on the secular
By David Loy
Zen’s Challenge to An Individual, Interior Spirituality
By Henry Shukman
A secular reimagining of the dharma may help us face political calamity.
By Stephen Batchelor
A writer comes to grips with her illusions about Tibet’s capital city versus its reality.
Text and Photographs by Judith Hertog
New translations of ancient Indian verses
By Andrew Schelling
A Zen reading of a biblical saying
By Ruben L. F. Habito | Photographs by Wyatt Gallery
All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more
By Marie Scarles
How to change the way we interact with those who anger us
By Bhante Henepola GunaratanaFeatured contributors include Judith Hertog, Kristiin Wilson, and Lisa Webster.
By The EditorsA letter from Tricycle’s editor
By James Shaheen
After 40 years, the remarkable story of Freda Bedi, the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
Q&A with Denise Di Novi, Hollywood director, producer, and Buddhist teacher
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
By Marie Scarles
We review three niche apps: Walking Meditations, Take a Chill, and Thync
By Caitlin Van Dusen, Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
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.
By Emma Varvaloucas, Photographs by Matthieu Ricard
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors, Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick
Selections from Haemin Sunim’s new book
By Haemin Sunim
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
By The Editors
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 […]
By Iain McGilchrist
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 […]
By Andrew Olendzki
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 […]
By Leath Tonino
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 […]
By Jonathan Bricklin