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IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Bardo of Lost Mammals
As extinction pushes species into the past, humans must decide how to pull them back into the future.
CultureMagazine | Special Section
My Brief Career Composing Spanish Music
Listening to the din outside his window, William R. Stimson leaves himself behind.
Awakening in the Bardo
In the space between past and future, having and losing, knowing and not knowing, lies an opportunity for awakening.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Tree With a View
In between jobs, John House reacquaints himself with the weather, his garden, and the risk of being left to his own devices.
Something Strange is Happening
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The In-between State
Pema Chödrön points to the perfect training ground for the spiritual warrior—anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
The Opportunity of Uncertainty
Sogyal Rinpoche illuminates the wisdom of confusion.
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
The Luminous Gap in Bardo
Relaxing into uncertainty, as Francesca Fremantle tells us, is to open to hidden possibilities.
TeachingsMagazine | Special Section
Insomnia
Restless, her mind shifting from one thought to another, Judith Simmer-Brown lets go, and sees through the nature of insomnia.
Features
Who’s in Charge Here Anyway?
In a land of opportunity and opportunism, of new deals and raw deals, who or what can you trust?
One Dharma
This article appears in 20 Years, 20 Teachings: The Tricycle 20th Anniversary E-Book. It’s free to all Supporting and Sustaining Members. Get the e-book. As different Buddhist traditions take root in the West, is it possible…
Out of the Killing Fields
Robert Hirschfield tunes in to the ambiguity of silence in an émigré community.
Aborigine in the Citadel
Can a "fat, old, dreadlocked blacklady poet" teach sonnets and silence to twenty-eight West Point cadets? Yes ma'am.
Working in the Cracks
An interview with Bernie Glassman
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Mantra & The Typist
What is it like to be a translator for a Tibetan lama? Anne C. Klein reveals the source of the language magic.
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Letters to the Editor Winter 2001
Tricycle welcomes letters to the editor. Letters are subject to editing. Please send correspondence to: Tricycle: The Buddhist Review92 Vandam St.New York, NY 10013Fax: (212) 645-1493E-mail address: editorial@tricycle.com Dharma Mums I read Anne Cushman’s article on…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Nothing to Regret
Clark Strand uses biblical text as koan to bring us to a unique understanding of faith.
Books In Brief Winter 2001
Answers: Discussions with Western BuddhistsThe Dalai LamaTranslated and edited by José CabezónSnow Lion Publications: Ithaca, 2001102 pp.; $12.95 (paper) It has been a long-standing tradition for the Dalai Lama to spend several days each winter in…
‘Shoes Outside the Door’ by Michael Downing
Shoes Outside the Door:Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen CenterMichael DowningCounterpoint: Washington, DC, 2001448 pp.; $26.00 (cloth) Michael Downing’s Shoes Outside the Door is an account of San Francisco Zen Center’s growth from a…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Practice
Spaces in the Sky
Questioning conventional Buddhist practices, Stephen Batchelor grapples with the sometimes troubling virtue of nonviolence.
Working with Anger
An interview with Tibetan teacher Thubten Chodron and an excerpt from her new book.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
What We’ve Been Practicing For
Turning to practice, Thanissaro Bhikkhu brings us back to the only refuge there is.
Sri Lanka: A Special Report
With sixty to seventy thousand people dead and half a million more driven from their homes in barely two decades, Sri Lanka is in the grip of an epic tragedy that mocks the essential tolerance and…
Contributors Winter 2001
Andrew Schelling, poet, Zen student, and translator of India’s old verse, teaches at Naropa University. Regarding his essay“Bardo of Lost Mammals,” he remarks: “Buddhist texts old and new refer to the interdependence of all forms of…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Gardening
Medicine and Disease Subdue Each Other
On the summer solstice of this year my youngest sister, Debbie, was diagnosed with breast cancer, revealed in a routine mammogram. The mother of two young sons, ages six and seven, she wasted no time in…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
The Gateway to Compassion
Lama Palden provides us with spiritual tools to open to the wisdom and compassion within us all.
‘The Fourteen Dalai Lamas’ by Glenn H. Mullin
'The Fourteen Dalai Lamas' by Glenn H. Mullin
What Works
“Until there is peace in the Middle East, there will be no peace for Americans at home.” In spite of himself, Osama bin Laden spoke the truth. What he intended as a menacing threat turned out…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
The Real Enemy
Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche exhorts us to let go of anger and take charge of our minds.
September 11: Practice and Perspectives
Buddhists respond to terrorism.
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Welcome to the Real World
Living in a "god realm" of privilege and affluence, Americans awoke to the world's harsher realities on September 11. Judith L. Lief guides us beyond the anger that followed.
‘Tariki’ by Hiroyuki Itsuki
Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering PeaceHiroyuki ItsukiKodansha: New York, 2001229 pp.; $21.00 (cloth) In Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace, Hiroyuki Itsuki recounts an episode from a modern play about the life of Shinran, the thirteenth-century founder of…
Dharma in the Rockies: The Great Stupa
It’s highway driving for the first two hours north of Denver. After Fort Collins, taking the left fork at a gas station known only as Ted’s Place, we head steadily uphill through the towering crags of…
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Waking Up The Nation
Vietnamese monk, peace activist, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh speaks to Tricycle of the blessings that suffering can provide.
Monks and Maoists
Letters From Kathmandu
TeachingsMagazine | On Practice
Anger and Patience
“There is no error greater than hatred, And nothing mightier than patience. So I strive in every way to learn patience.” —Shakyamuni Buddha Think of anger. Anger is the mind that wishes to harm and hurt.…
September 20, 2001
We are obliged to cherish and protect this world, The place we humans call our home. So why pointlessly destroy any source Of our world’s prosperity? May the truth of all buddhas in the ten directions…
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | On Parenting
The Dharma of Motherhood
There have been moments in my life when I’ve felt that I found Buddhism mostly so that my daughter, Maud, now fourteen, could grow up around a dharma practitioner. It’s never been a problem, trying to…