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Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By The Editors
Contributors include Michael Avedon, Duncan Ryuken Williams, Carolyn Gregoire and Kenneth Tanaka.
By The Editors
A letter from Tricycle’s editor and publisher kicks off the new Spring 2019 issue
By James Shaheen
A Buddhist haven emerges in rural Kentucky, thanks to a generous retiree.
By Carolyn Gregoire
4 podcasts no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
An inside look at the daily activities of a dharma teacher in Lansdowne, PA
Photographs by Jeenah Moon
Mirabai Bush was one of the first to bring meditation to the corporate sector. Two decades later, she stands by her decision.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
The Bispebjerg Cemetery in Denmark’s capital has opened a Buddhist section with sacred objects from Tibetan Buddhist leaders.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Bhante Buddharakkhita, one of the first African Buddhist monks, is melding Buddhism with traditional African wisdom in Uganda.
By Eliza Rockefeller
The number of Buddhist centers, when the first Buddhist temple was established (it’s further back than you may think), and more dharma data from Central and Eastern Africa
By The Editors
The latest in Buddhist publishing plus a book worth rereading
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar and James Shaheen
Q&A with Dungse Jampal Norbu, a dharma teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist sangha Mangala Shri Bhuti and the son and dharma heir of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.
By The Editors
Seasonal change is an opportunity to be present in the world—one dandelion at a time.
By Hai An (Sister Ocean)
You know about Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall. But what about Europe’s first Theravada Buddhist center?
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
When we project conditioning from our past onto the present, we turn a benign moment into something else. Understanding the “five conditions” can help us get back to reality.
By Sean Murphy
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
You have a choice—using it wisely can spell the difference between misunderstanding and meaningful dialogue.
By Oren Jay Sofer
Our expert explains the etymology of nirvana.
By Andrew Olendzki
A former soldier documents wartime Vietnam on an eccentric yogi’s Buddhist island.
By John Steinbeck IV
With the outbreak of World War II, Japanese Americans were incarcerated by the thousands. Out of the crucible of the camps, a uniquely American Buddhism was born.
By Duncan Ryuken Williams
Raised at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, the daughter of Western Zen pioneer Taizan Maezumi Roshi now makes her home in exotic field sites where she studies past ecosystems—and occasionally fishes a river piranha for dinner.
Interview by Andrew Cooper
Shaolin monks kick, flip, and dance in a performance both timeless and contemporary.
By Emma Varvaloucas, Choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
What does it look like to die well?
By Katy Butler
Like the oxherding pictures used in Zen, Shin Buddhism’s seven phases of the drowning sailor illustrate the path to enlightenment.
By Kenneth Tanaka, Illustrations by Andrew Archer
A Nichiren Buddhist artist invites us to reckon with the painful legacy of American slavery with openness and compassion.
By Emma Varvaloucas
A swim with Ram Dass is a dip into egolessness.
By Mark Epstein
Can Buddhist theology help save us from climate disaster? The Dalai Lama thinks so.
By Linda Heuman
A playwright and a poet create beauty in the face of death in Letters from Max.
By Douglas Penick
Long overdue, a new exhibition spanning centuries showcases the richness and diversity of Sri Lankan art and chronicles Buddhism’s introduction to the country.
By Albert Johns
“In this world of dreams don’t let the clock cut up your life in pieces.”
By Jim Harrison