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How a Harlem zendo is fighting to save lives
By Joan Duncan Oliver
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How a Harlem zendo is fighting to save lives
By Joan Duncan Oliver
After the long search, a path of homecoming
By Joel Agee
Fleet Maull’s Prison Dharma Network is bringing Buddhist teachings to inmates.
By Travis Duncan
Adam Frank ponders the relationship between Buddhism and the nature of time.
By Adam Frank
For the Nipponzan Myohoji, chanting is a practice of social transformation.
By Tracy Cochran, Photography by Fred LeBlanc
In 1982, I was one of a small group of Zen students who were invited to an audience with Nichidatsu Fujii. Guruji, as he was affectionately known, was making a short visit to Los Angeles on his way back to Japan following that spring’s historic nuclear disarmament activities in New York, which he and his […]
By Andrew CooperFeatured contributors include Allan Lokos, Susan Moon, Evan Brenner, Joel Agee, and Darrin Harris Frisby’s photography.
By TricycleA letter from Tricycle’s editor
By James Shaheen
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
By Tricycle
Pamela White affirms the beliefs of a Buddhist.
By Pamela Gayle White
What is Zen? Robert Aitken provides three takes.
By Robert Aitken
Discipline, explains Joan Gattuso, begs something more.
By Joan Gattuso
Daehaeng Kun Sunim teaches that Juingong, the shared foundation of our selves and our thoughts, forms an unbreakable bond that exceeds us all.
By Daehaeng Kun Sunim
Matthew Weiner speaks with Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne about his grassroots movement based on Buddhist principles.
By Tricycle
To Zen nun and animal-welfare journalist Mira Tweti, Buddhism is indeed for the birds.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
After a storm, a runner sees the world with fresh eyes.
By Ed Brickell
Susan Moon on the necessity of alternative meditation postures
By Susan Moon
Breaking free of unhealthy relationships allows us to replace dependency and neurosis with compassionate respect.
By Dzigar Kongtrul RinpocheDennis Genpo Merzel offers a practice to work with our shadow sides and awaken our enlightened nature.
By Dennis Genpo Merzel
Master Sheng Yen has dedicated his life to spreading the teachings of Chan Buddhism in China and in the West. In this excerpt from his new autobiography, Footprints in the Snow, Master Sheng Yen tells the story of his arrival in New York and how he learned to live without a home. AFTER I RESIGNED […]
By Master Sheng-Yen
Daisaku Ikeda is President of the Soka Gakkai International, the world’s largest Buddhist lay group and America’s most diverse. In a rare interview, Ikeda speaks to contributing editor Clark Strand about his organization’s remarkable history, its oft-misunderstood practice, and what its members are really chanting for. From Hollywood celebrities to renowned jazz musicians to everyday practitioners […]
By The Editors
By working with the lay precept on speech, we can learn to say the right thing at the right time.
By Allan Lokos
We are what we do.
By Andrew OlendzkiI just finished Vinegar Into Honey: Seven Steps To Understanding And Transforming Anger, Aggression, And Violence, by Ron Leifer (Snow Lion, 2008). I’m interested in emotional patterns, and I was curious to see how Leifer, a psychiatrist and Buddhist meditation teacher, would suggest working with anger. The title is a Tibetan metaphor for transforming negative […]
By Martine BatchelorBanjo riffs and eclectic roots
By Sarah ToddExplaining Emptiness
By Andrew MerzKerouac’s Buddhaevan
By Evan BrennerMemoirs of an Ex-Monk
By Dan Zigmond
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, is well known for his longstanding interest in science and, in recent years, for his scholarly engagements with scientists at the (now annual) Mind and Life conferences. Mind and Life: Discussions With The Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality by Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand (Columbia University […]
By Aaron Lackowski
A poem by the 9th-century Zen Master Decheng, translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde
By Tricycle