The Flute Teacher

A Poet’s Journey through a Chinese Prison

by Liao Yiwu | photography by Chen Wei

contemporary art piece comprised of colorful cans for story about pure land morality

Other-Power

Why self-mastery is self-defeating

by Dharmavidya David Brazier | artwork by Don Morris

Reflections of the Flowerbank World

The Avatamsaka Sutra in art

by Dale S. Wright | artwork by Tom Wudl

Roused from a Dream

Restoring Zen’s female lineage

by Mary Fowles | illustrations by Barbara Cooper

painting of a woman's face with red and black x's through it

The Man-made Obstacle

Distinguishing between problems of human birth and problems of human making

By Rita M. Gross, Photography by Luis González Palma

Under One Umbrella

Can tradition and science both fit? An interview with Thupten Jinpa Langri

By Linda Heuman

Featured Contributors Summer 2014

Contributors include Tom Wudl, Mary Fowles, and Luis González Palma

By The Editors

Letters to the Editor Summer 2014

A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers

By The Editors

The Ideal and the Real

A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen

By James Shaheen

The Everyday Sublime

By Stephen Batchelor

A Few Simple Lines

By Marguerite Manteau-Rao

Like a Mirage

By Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Thinking of Quitting Thinking

By Khenpo Gawang

Capable Compassion

By Tai Moses

Meeting Mara

By Noah Levine

Coming, Going

By Kozan Ichikyo

Man with head bowed, remorse in buddhism

The Sweet Pain of Remorse

By Ezra Bayda

Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems

By Alice Walker

10 Misconceptions about Buddhism

Two Buddhist scholars expand on popular misconceptions about Buddhism.

By Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.

An Interview with Nick Nauman

Q&A with a Buddhist chef

By Heather More Iarusso

Fredericka Foster

A contemporary artist on environmental Buddhism

By The Editors

Image of the Buddha. bodhicitta karma trinlay rinpoche

What We’ve Been All Along

Cultivating the spirit of awakening

By Karma Trinlay Rinpoche | Photography by Bill Armstrong

Other Fingers Pointing to the Moon

An interview with Zen master and former priest Ruben L. F. Habito

By Jane Lancaster Patterson

The Good Shepherd

Strengthening our natural capacity for awareness

by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov

Only Fiction

The limitations of bearing witness at Auschwitz

By Hawa Allan

Dharma Drunks

Two new Buddhist takes on how to stay sober

By Joan Duncan Oliver

Books in Brief Summer 2014

Buddhist writer Clark Strand is disillusioned with American Buddhism. That is, he avows, with the exception of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), the world’s largest lay Buddhist institution, whose presence has been steadily growing on American shores as well as abroad. Founded in Japan in 1930, the organization now boasts 12 million members in 192 […]

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Parting Words

Parting Words Summer 2014

Parting words from Gary Snyder (and Cold Mountain)

By Gary Snyder

Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity

Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity, introduces a fresh perspective to the dialogue between Buddhism and science. This anthology of Tricycle essays and interviews by Linda Heuman brings together Buddhist scholars, neuroscientists, and cultural critics on the question of finding meaning in our modern world.

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