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MeditationMagazine | Special Section
A Breath of Fresh Air
Seven meditations for connecting with nature
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Corporate Takeover
A conversation on Buddhism, corporate power, confrontational tactics, and the future of the world with Rainforest Action Network chairman Jim Gollin
Green Dharma: Mother Nature, Buddha Nature
Introducing a Special Section on Buddhism and nature
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Everything is Holy
Katy Butler finds her spiritual ground
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Shelter from the Storm
The wildness at the edge of awareness
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Stop Shopping
and other Buddhist practices to save the planet
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
The Whole Package
Interconnectedness is not all fuzzy and warm. In a free-ranging discussion with Clark Strand, pioneering Buddhist Michael Soulé discusses the pitfalls and saving graces of its shadow side.
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
East Is West
Trinlay Tulku Rinpoche was born in France to an American mother and French father. Recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of two, he was raised by some of the last century’s greatest Tibetan masters.…
Departments
The Teacher Within
Lessons from My Unborn Child
A Village in the Wake of a Wave
Tishani Doshi reports on the tsunami’s impact on one small town in Sri Lanka
A Buddha For Us
Searching for answers
The Theater of Reflection
A Tibetan lama invites us to the theater of emptiness.
The World Unhinged
An unabashed allegory
Buddha Buzz Summer 2005
Strange but true tales from the modern Buddhist world
Da, the Buddhist
What happens when a lapsed-Catholic house painter from Glasgow suddenly takes up Buddhist meditation? For Jimmy McKenna—”Da” (Scottish for “Dad”) in Buddha Da, Anne Donovan’s acclaimed first novel, just published in the U.S.—it’s the undoing of…
Modern Master
Not your conventional biography
MeditationMagazine | Thus Have I Heard
Self as Verb
Unraveling the Buddha’s teachings on how we construct ourselves
Beauty Beyond Beauty
A Portfolio by Matthieu Ricard
Give and Take: What does not being a Buddhist mean to you?
Tricycle’s Andrew Cooper chats with Rafi Zabor, the author of "The Bear Comes Home", which received the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 as the year’s best American work of fiction. His book “I, Wabenzi” is due out…
CultureMagazine | Parting Words
What the Water Knows
What the mouth sings, the soul must learn to forgive.A rat’s as moral as a monk in the eyes of the real world.Still, the heart is a riverpouring from itself, a river that cannot be crossed.…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Essay
Glass of Water, Bare Feet
Noelle Oxenhandler concocts an antidote to fundamentalism
Not So Fast
The straw man's case against religion
Imprisoning Peace
Sharon Salzberg on Aung San Suu Kyi’s sixtieth birthday
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Reviews
Natural-Born Filmmaker
A brief chat with lama Khyentse Norbu Rinpoche
A Little Summer Fun
Between the fundamentalists and the strict secularists, there’s a sane middle.At the end of March, a striking tableau appeared on the front page of the New York Times. Religious leaders representing the Abrahamic faiths had gathered…
IdeasMagazine | Practical Pilgrim
Sravasti: Diamond in the Rough
Allan Hunt Badiner visits the center of the Buddha’s world.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Five Practices to Change Your Mind
Basic Buddhist meditation practices can transform the way you think and the way you view the world. Here, five teachers offer introductory methods for changing your mind—and your life.
Books in Brief Summer 2005
The Four Noble TruthsGeshe Tashi TseringBoston: Wisdom Publications, 2005144 pp.; $14.95 (paper) In his first sermon, the Buddha famously laid the foundation for all of his teachings to follow with the doctrine of the Four Noble…
Right Film
A survey of the second annual International Buddhist Film Festival
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Meeting the Dharma Alone
A late Thai master's final advice on walking the path to enlightenment
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
Leaping Lamas!
Alexandra David-Neel (1868—1969), the first European to penetrate the Tibetan plateau and investigate its mysterious religion, records her encounter with a lung-gom-pa, a monk capable of traveling great distances on foot at a supernormal speed.
Scat
Wendy Johnson takes a closer look at what gets left behind.
The People’s Zen
What it really looked like
Contributors Summer 2005
Gary Thorp (Shelter from the Storm) tells us: “I’ve always looked at Buddhism and nature, not as two separate entities, but as two different ways of seeing the same thing. Descriptive writing about the relationship between…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Insights
The Price of Fear
In the face of vanishing freedom, Joel Agee finds inspiration in the story of Siddhartha Gautama.
Letters To The Editor Summer 2005
Tantric TeaseI absolutely loved the article on tantric art by Jeff Watt [“Maps of Enlightenment,” Spring 2005]. When I quickly found myself at the end of the article, I asked myself where the rest of it…
Saved by History
Renowned scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels explains how historical study can rescue religion from dogma in an interfaith dialog with Tricycle's Andrew Cooper