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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
How to Get Through These Times
An introduction to the special section
Hold to the Center!
Zen advice for when things blow up around you
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
What to Do When You Don’t Know What’s Next
There’s so much chaos in the world right now that we have little choice but to wake up to it. Heightened uncertainty is an excellent opportunity for growth.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
100 Best Climate Solutions—And Why They’re Going to Work
An interview with the environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Dialogue Across Difference
In a time of discordance and distrust, especially among religious communities, a Muslim activist and a Buddhist priest come together to discuss and resist the nativism that has surfaced all over the globe.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Camp Dharma
The recent talk of a Muslim registry isn’t the first time the United States government has targeted individuals based on their religion. Duncan Ryuken Williams shares the often overlooked stories of Buddhist Japanese Americans who were…
A World Ever at Its End
Living on amid the destruction of everything we ever knew
Features
Why Shame Gets a Bad Rap
(But shouldn't)
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Now What?
When Zen master Bernie Glassman suffers a debilitating stroke, he and his wife learn the ultimate lesson of not-knowing.
Washing My Boy’s Body
When a hospice counselor is called to the bedside of a child who has just died, he leads the parents through a Buddhist ritual for cleaning the body. In the process, he guides them through the…
Where Nature and Mind Meet
Chinese classics scholar David Hinton on the transformative power of landscape practice: wholly immersed in nature, we shed the cocoon of identity and separateness.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Great Divide
In the search for diversity, have the meditation-centered traditions been asking the wrong questions? A Nichiren priest weighs in.
Only Connect
In a place where Buddhist roots don't run deep, the Northwest Dharma Association is making efforts to build bridges across disparate Buddhist groups––some of which exist side-by-side yet remain unaware of each other.
Departments
Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Magazine | Letter From The Editor
Dissolving the Boundary Lines
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
Featured Contributors
Featured contributors include Wendy Egyoku Nakao Roshi, Sofia Ali-Khan, and Grégoire A. Meyer
Buddha Buzz Summer 2017
All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more
Brief Teachings
Select wisdom from sources old and new
This Buddhist Life: Tsewang Rinzing
Q&A with Tsewang Rinzing, president of the Bhutan Amateur Athletic Federation
Meet a Sangha: Anchorage Zen Community
Get to know this Zen sangha of about 20 members in Anchorage, Alaska
Coming Out Buddhist
George Saunders’s first novel is irrefutably—and magnificently—Buddhist.
Meditation App Roundup: Summer 2017
We review mindfulness-training programs that fit right into your pocket.
Books in Brief
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
The Arrows of the Mori
A brief excerpt from Samurai Wisdom Stories
Columns
Real Love
Switching from a passive recipient of love to a living embodiment of it, we find real love.
Wild Mustard and the Way of Zen
Our resident gardener renews her gratitude to a pioneering woman of Buddhism
Confronting the Heart of Darkness
It is only when we confront and accept the heart of darkness within ourselves that we can shatter the walls of ego that divides us from others.
Buddhist Political Glossary
Enter our version of the "spin zone"
Advice for Conflict
Lessons from the Buddha about how we can use our speech to reduce instead of provoke hostility
Remembering Gelek Rimpoche
The Tibetan Buddhist master and founder of Jewel Heart International bridged the gap between Tibet and the West.