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First Lesson, Best Lesson
Composer Philip Glass talks about his path to Buddhism and the evolution of his music.
The Shadow Side of Krishnamurti
An interview with Radha Rajagopal Sloss, author of "Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti"
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Lady and the Monk
Excerpts from Pico Iyer's "The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto"
Contradictions In Action
How do we reconcile Buddhist ethics with Burma's history?
The Changing of the Guard
An excerpt from "How the Swans Came to the Lake"
Lost Legacy
An interview with Tenzin Norbu Namseling
The Nuns’ Island
A rains retreat reflection
Departments
Without Warning
Poems by Patricia Donegan
Profiles: Great Simplicity
A glimpse of Japanese Buddhist scholar D.T. Suzuki
Letters to the Editor Winter 1991
AUSPICIOUS BEGINNINGS The first issue of Tricycle was superb—a most auspicious beginning. I especially enjoyed Joel McCleary’s fine tribute to Geshe Wangyal, Dean Rolston’s moving “Memento Mori,” and the delightfully unorthodox Spalding Gray interview with His…
Many is More
Following the failed coup in Russia a cartoon in a New York newspaper featured two people standing in front of the Kremlin. One was saying to the other, “If you miss the one-party system, go to…
Anathemas and Admirations
Anathemas and Admirations By E. M. Cioran. Translated by Richard Howard. Arcade: New York, 1991. 256 pp. $22.95. I’ve always been a sucker for well-articulated despair and fin de siecle weariness, and what better way seemingly to…
Zen Seeds: Reflections of a Female Priest
By Shundo Aoyama
Enlightened Living: Teachings of Tibetan Buddhist Masters
Enlightened Living: Teachings of Tibetan Buddhist Masters Translated by Tulku Thondup. Edited by Harold Talbott. Shambhala Publications: Boston, 1990. 178 pp. $12.95 (paperback). In these cynical times, when political and religious scandals hit the newspapers daily…
The Anguish of Tibet
The Anguish of Tibet Edited by Petra K. Kelly, Gert Bastian, and Pat Aiello. Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 382 pp. $17.00. Tibet may be in vogue in this International Year of Tibet, but the iron yoke of…
World as Lover, World as Self
World as Lover, World as Self By Joanna Macy Parallax Press: Berkeley, 1991. 251 pp. $15.00. Joanna Macy has always considered it perfectly natural to feel the sufferings of the world as her own. She has worked…
MeditationMagazine | Interview
In the Dukkha Magnet Zone
An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wisdom and Compassion: Sacred Art of Tibet
Inside the opening of the Asian Art Museum's exhibit, where the Dalai Lama granted a special blessing and initiated the creation of a large-scale sand mandala
TeachingsMagazine | On Translation, Teachings And Texts
The Rectification of Names
Unpacking suffering
Ta-mo’s Fighting Monks
In the sixth century the Indian monk Bodhidharma took up residence at the Chinese temple of Shao-lin, where he introduced Dhyana Buddhism, the Indian school of meditation that in time gave rise to Chinese Ch’an (Zen). Since…
Eating Time
All beings are dependent on food, that is, eating. There is food for the body, food for feeling, food for volitional action, and food for rebirth. The Buddha cried when he saw this endless cycle: the fly…
Capitol News, Something to Chew On, and Update: Ms. Serenity Meets Monsieur Égoiste
CAPITOL NEWS On a recent Washington Post list of best sellers, the predictable line-up of The T-Factor Fat Gram Counter and Revenge of the Baby-Sat was unpredictably followed by The Art of War by Sun Tzu.…
Mike’s Cartoon
ObituariesMagazine | In Transition
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991)
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
The Finger Bone Path of Angulimala
An excerpt from Old Path, White Clouds, in which the historical Buddha encounters the treacherous murderer Angulimala
Hags, Nuns, and Magpie Scholars
Terigatha: Poems of the sisters
TeachingsMagazine | Teachings And Texts
Bodhidharma’s Teachings
"The absence of both understanding and not understanding is true understanding."
MeditationMagazine | Teachings And Texts
Teachings on the Nature of Mind and Practice
Thoughts have no tangible reality or intrinsic existence at all. There is therefore no logical reason why thoughts should have so much power over us.
Magazine | Teachings And Texts
From “Teachings on Mindfulness”
And how, monks, does a monk abide contemplating the body as body? Here a monk, having gone into the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding…
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
Body as Body
This vipassana practice is based on the Mahasatipatthana Sutta, the scripture that deals with the four foundations of mindfulness. We started with the first domain of mindfulness: paying attention to body sensations. As a way of beginning,…
Magazine | What Does Being A Buddhist Mean To You
What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1991
A diverse range of Buddhist practitioners across traditions on how they understand their Buddhist identity.
Bronze Mirror
by Jeanne Larsen
New and Noteworthy Texts in Translation
Dakini Teachings, Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, Transmission of the Light, Discourse on the Fruits of Recluseship, and The Practice of the Kalachakra
Books for Children
The Death of Echadon, Where is Tibet?, Prince Siddhartha, Hero of the Land of Snow, and The Children of Nepal
Columns
Buddhist Journal Beat
RIVERS & MOUNTAINS The first issue of Buddhism at the Crossroads (formerly Spring Wind Buddhist Cultural Forum), published by the Zen Lotus Society in Toronto, focuses on the environment. In her article on environmental ethics, Stephanie Kaza…