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Walking Alone
The Way of Achaan Runjuan
Impossible Vacation
A Pocono Zen Retreat
Taking Chances
Laurie Anderson and John Cage
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Accusing the Tiger
Sexual Ethics and Buddhist Teachers
In Exile from Siam
An Interview with Sulak Sivaraksa
Sentient Questions
The Dalai Lama questions scientists about the nature of life
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Formless Form
Buddhism and Twelve-Step Programs
The Jesus Lama: Thomas Merton in the Himalayas
An interview with Harold Talbott
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IdeasMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Man Who Woke Up
Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what…
Great Swan
Meetings with Ramakrishna, calligraphy by Michele Laporte
Books in Brief
History of Indian Buddhism: from the Origins to the Saka Era By Etienne Lamotte. Translated by Sara Webb-Boin, under the supervision of Jean Dantinne. Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain: Louvain, 1991. 870 pp. $95.00 (paperback).…
Money and the Meaning of Life
Money and the Meaning of Life By Jacob Needleman. Doubleday: New York, 1991. 321 pp. $20.00 (hardcover). “Tether your camel, then talk of God,” goes the old desert saying. Perhaps you know people who could use…
MindScience: An East-West Dialogue
MindScience: An East-West Dialogue Edited by Daniel Goleman and Robert A. F. Thurman. Wisdom Publications: Boston, 1991. 126 pp. $12.50 (paperback). In the spring of 1991, East met West in a one-day symposium on the nature…
Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus
Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus By Georg Feuerstein. Paragon House: New York, 1991. 259 pp. $24.95 (hardcover). Everyone is entitled to receive at least two pearls…
The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha
The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha By Susan Murcott Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 219 pp. $15.00 (paperback). The First Buddhist Women, Susan Murcott’s translations and commentary on the Therigatha, is a compelling and…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
On Origination
Translated by Maurice Walshe
The Code of the Warrior: In History, Myth, and Everyday Life
The Code of the Warrior: In History, Myth, and Everyday Life By Rick Fields. HarperCollins: New York, 1991. 339 pp. $15.00 (paperback). An ancient Chinese curse says “May you be born in an interesting time!” This epithet…
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber By Ken Wilber. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 413 pp. $25.00 (hardcover). When Ken Wilber and Treya Killam met in 1983, it was…
The Whole World Is A Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life
The Whole World Is A Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life With questions and commentary by Zen Master Seung Sahn. Edited by Jane McLaughlin and Paul Muenzen. Charles E. Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1992. 244…
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The First Precept
To refrain from killing is the first Buddhist precept. The Theravada tradition of Southeast Asia interprets this precept in terms that parallel a Western sense of morality: there is a clear-cut distinction between killing and not…
Narrow Road to the Interior
Narrow Road to the Interior By Matsuo Basho. Translated by Sam Hamill. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1991. 105 pp. $10.00 (paperback). As Sam Hamill reminds us in the preface to this lucid and engaging translation, Basho’s haibun—brief prose…
The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism
The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism By Dudjom Jigdal Yeshe Dorje Volume 1: The Translations, 973 pp. Book 1: Fundamentals of the Nyingma School Book 2: History of the Nyingma School Volume 2: Reference Material, 485…
Thai Women in Buddhism
Thai Women in Buddhism By Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 110 pp. $12.00 (paperback) Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, professor of Religion and Philosophy at Thammasat University in Bangkok, has written a book as skillful as a surgeon’s knife,…
Monkey: A Journey to the West
Monkey: A Journey to the West Retold by David Kherdian. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1992. 184 pp. $10.00 (paperback). Good things aren’t as hard to come by as our current economic gloom may suggest. A beautiful retelling…
In the News Summer 1992
AMNESTY TAKES ON CHINA Amnesty International, the human rights advocacy group, is launching a campaign in May to bring greater attention to the atrocities cited by Tibetan prisoners of conscience. Amnesty has evidence of over one hundred…
Giving Birth to Ancestors
A seasoned practitioner reflects on the importance of spiritually connecting to sentient beings of the past.
Letters to the Editor Summer 1992
TAKEN TO TASK I had thought one of the commitments of Tricycle was to document and extend the presence of women in Buddhism. Of the ten feature articles in your third issue, only one, the editor’s…
Speaking of Silence
Recently I had the happy occasion to introduce two old friends whose lives had been informed by the Cistercian monk, Father Louis, better known as Thomas Merton. Both had grown up in Episcopalian families; one had converted…
Cambodia
The Aftermath
Tasting Darkness
Whenever I sith with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the far-off shrill of an insect, lost in contemplation of flavors to come, I feel as if I were being…
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation
The Bodhisattva Vows
The Great Vows, known as the Bodhisattva Vows, probably originated in China around the sixth century and may have been derived from an earlier Sanskrit gatha (a four-line verse that sums up an aspect of…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Summer 1992
Re: rats, mice, and cockroaches
Columns
Buddhist Journal Beat – Summer 1992
A survey of material from Buddhist journals compiled by Rick Fields, Tricycle's Editor-at-Large