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What Does Being a Buddhist Mean to You? Winter 1992
Reflections from Tricycle readers on what being Buddhist means to them around the topic of euthanasia
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
Through a Glass, Darkly
Writer Virginia MacLean reflects on bidding her loved ones farewell the "right way," free of self-interest, by caring for them.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
No Second Guessing
An interview with Stephen Levine
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Very Easy Death
Excerpted from Simone de Beauvoir's classic memoir
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Good Death
Mercy, deliverance, and the nature of suffering
Features
The Science of Compassion
Buddhists cherish the idea that our fundamental nature, our buddha-nature, is universally compassionate; according to Western science, however, the nature that Nature gives us is anything but.
In the Mix
"Acting is about discovering what's true in the moment. It's playing jazz on your own nervous system."
After Patriarchy
The feminist reconceptualization calls for seeing “ordinary” activities as sacred—and spiritually significant.
Himalayan Intrigue
The search for the new Karmapa
A Life Outside of Time
Five years go, I traveled to Kyoto to learn about stillness and focus in the Zen temples whose pictures I had long admired. What I quickly learned was that Zen required much more commitment and rigor than…
As American as Apple Pie?
An Insider's view of Nichiren Shoshu
Politics and Prayer
Jerry Brown talks with Les Levine
Departments
Books in Brief
Review of books from H.H. the Dalai Lama
Temple Dusk: Zen Haiku
A casual stroll through a mini-mindfield
Dream Yoga and the Practices of Natural Light
Exploring the possibilities of lucid dreaming for Buddhist practice
The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Environment and Civilization
A book that weaves the idea of wilderness into different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts
The Blue Cliff Record
"A book to live with."
Relative World, Ultimate Mind
“Poetry is body, speech, and mind interacting with the universe. It is relative world playing with ultimate mind.”
The American Encounter with Buddhism 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
A review of the ways nineteenth-century Buddhists simultaneously swam against and were swept along by the cultural currents of Victorian America
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
A recasting of the soul-craft of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in a way helpful to Westerners
TeachingsMagazine | Shakyamuni Buddha: A Life Retold
A Prince Indeed
The Birth of Siddartha
The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa
366 haikus: one for every day of the year, and one to leap from
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Buddha Got Enlightened Under a Tree
Author Rick Fields reflects on the Buddha's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, nature, and interdependence.
Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence / Zen Awakening and Society
William R. LaFleur reviews two books that urge Western Buddhists to think about ethics and society.
Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka
What happened to Buddhism in Sri Lanka that civil war could be waged on its behalf? This study by S. J. Tambiah helps us understand.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Enduring the Fires
From anger to patience
The Rain of Law
Thoreau's translation of the Lotus Sutra
In the News Winter 1992
His Holiness The Dalai Lama guest-edits the 1992 Christmas issue of French Vogue, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center celebrates 25 years, plus more Buddhist news.
Just the Right Amount
From a Zen workshop with John Daido Loori
Tender Mercies
A letter from the editor
Fancy Dancers
A portfolio of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
Columns
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