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The Night Report
A Love Story
Where the Thinking Stops
How prayer can put us in touch with something that is infinitely greater than we are—that is, mind itself
The Buddha’s Baggage
Everything you wanted to know about karma but were afraid to ask
The Life of the Lotus Sutra
An interview with Donald S. Lopez Jr. on the biography of one of Buddhism’s most influential texts
Oneness With Every Stitch
The life of Tomoe Katagiri, American Zen’s great sewing matriarch
The Buddhist History of Moveable Type
Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable metal type was named Choe Yun-ui.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Run, Pilgrim, Run
One woman's quest to revive an ancient pilgrimage on a tiny Japanese Island
A More Enlightened Way of Being
The entrance of Buddhist ethics into the modern world
Departments
Letters to the Editor Winter 2016
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Magazine | Letter From The Editor
10,000 Dharma Doors
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
Featured Contributors Winter 2016
Featured contributors include Amie Barrodale, Seth Zuiho Segall, and Xiang Guohua.
Buddha Buzz Winter 2016
All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more
Brief Teachings
Select wisdom from sources old and new
This Buddhist Life: Oshin Liam Jennings
Q&A with Oshin Liam Jennings, advocate for the differently abled
Waves
"Waves," a poem by Cho Oh-Hyun
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
How to Be Faultless
To hope to have no faults is to realize that you do have faults, and that in itself is to be faultless.
Treading the Path with Care
What happens when we ask ourselves: what do we care about most?
A Stranger Morality
Clancy Martin on the extreme generosity of do-gooders
Meditation App Roundup: Winter 2016
Caitlin Van Dusen tries three meditation apps
The Best Remedy
The Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita's last advice for attaining peace in our inner and outer worlds
Books in Brief
Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing
Columns
The Teacher Racket
Two years ago, my wife, Stephanie, and I decided to move to Toronto from our home in Los Angeles to be nearer to our families. Among other things, this meant leaving our jobs—in my case, a…
What’s So Wrong with Mindfulness?
“I was stressed out, burned out, and divorced. And then I started doing yoga.” This is how many people I have spoken to in the course of my research describe their path to mindfulness. Like yoga,…
Giving Pain the Slip
I learned to meditate when I was 8 years old, though I did not know it at the time. I was beset by terrible headaches, and the doctors did not know their cause. In retrospect, I…
Ecology of the Heart
We have a simple wooden Buddha figure on our home altar. During a surfing holiday in Bali, our son Jesse purchased this Buddha from a seaside craftsman. Jesse asked forgiveness of the Buddha before wrapping him…