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Rafi Zabor approaches the limits of suffering while caring for his aging parents.
By Rafi ZaborAndrew Black is a Buddhist who came in fifth in the 2005 World Poker Championship. Vishvapani asks him how Buddhism and poker stack up.
By VishvapaniIn a talk given at Smith College, Helen Tworkov reflects on a half century of American Buddhist women and reimagines the future of power.
By Helen Tworkov
At a time when our spiritual traditions struggle to remain relevant in a culture dominated by scientific materialism, Andrew Cooper considers the pros and cons of a new religious model based on the psychology of “flow.”
By Andrew CooperDocumenting the Dalai Lama
By Pico Iyer
Woven from the text of twenty enlightened ad campaigns
By Kenneth KraftTales of an unlikely Himalayan pilgrim
By TricyclePaul Breiter visits revered Thai teacher Ajahn Chah on his first trip to America.
By Paul BreiterIn the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali CanonBhikkhu Bodhi, Ed. & Trans.Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005496 pp.; $18.95 (paper) Wisdom Publications’ hefty translations of the Pali canon have, for many practitioners, been books to own and admire rather than read and absorb. With this new selection, editor/translator Bhikkhu Bodhi clears the way […]
By Tricycle
Rafi Zabor, whose new book, I, Wabenzi, is excerpted in this issue (“Too Much,”), writes: “The opening of I, Wabenzi was the first aesthetically successful, living thing I was able to write several years into the aftermath of my parents’ deaths, in 1985 and ’86. It was intended to be a piece about one hundred […]
By Tricycle
Cultivating equanimity with Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U Pandita
By Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U PanditaIn recent months, proponents of “intelligent design” have enjoyed remarkable success in pitching to American school boards what amounts to nothing less than stealth creationism. By arguing that this essentially religious notion rises to the level of scientific theory, its adherents have created the false impression that scientists themselves are taking part in the debate. […]
By James Shaheen
Andrew Olendzki examines the dilemma of good and evil in human nature.
By Andrew OlendzkiTibet at War
By Cullen CouchSearch for self called off after 38 years.
By TricycleThe first Spiritual Activism Conference offers a hopeful vision for a movement of spiritual progressives—and interesting lessons for engaged Buddhists.
By Phil CatalfoAjahn Brahm tells the tale of a fearless monk and a pair of pliers.
By Ajahn Brahm
The brilliance and inconsequence of humanity through the eye of Michael Light
By Jeff GreenwaldReality BitesABC Television put out a casting call this summer for Buddhist families to appear on its reality show Wife Swap. In the show, two wives from two separate families switch lives for eight days: chaos, conflict, and sometimes cross-cultural understanding ensue. ABC hoped to find an American Buddhist family that could be described as […]
By TricycleTibet through Chinese eyes
By Dan ZigmondLessons from the factory floor
By Dean Sluyter
New Orleans evacuee Erik Hansen recounts the tense lead-up to Hurricane Katrina and searches for answers in its tragic wake.
By Erik Hansen
Storyteller Rafe Martin discusses the transformative and guiding power of myth with Joseph Sorrentino.
By Tricycle
Pema Chödrön walks us through Shantideva’s prescription for solitude, verse by verse.
By Pema ChödrönAndrew Cooper chats with Gerry Shishin Wick Roshi, President and Spiritual Leader of Great Mountain Zen Center in Lafayette, Colorado.
By TricycleOld India’s finest in translation
By Andrew SchellingShantideva, Dogen, . . . Shakespeare? Mark Lamonica finds the Buddha in the Bard.
By Mark LamonicaIn Sri Lanka, giving of oneself takes a literal turn.
By Asoka BandarageThe Dispute Of HappinessThe Tricycle Fall 2005 issue was one of the best yet! So many articles on happiness, so much to think about—and like all really good discussions, it left me asking so many questions! Here are two: As a college professor, I sometimes ask my students what they think is the most important […]
By TricycleContributing editor Tracy Cochran speaks with Buddhist scholar Mu Soeng about the danger of selling the dharma.
By TricycleTwo documentaries expose divergent views of death and nature.
By Eliot Fintushel