Forgiveness Is Not Buddhist

Buddhist teachings do not advise asking others to absolve us from our misdeeds. Instead, they outline a path to purification that will change our relationship to reactive patterns.

By Ken McLeod

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Buddhism’s Second-Class Citizens

By paying lip service to female empowerment but not materially supporting Western female monastics, we leave them—and the future of Tibetan Buddhism in the West—in doubt.

By Ayya Yeshe

Becoming a Buddha

The three secrets to liberation in Japanese esoteric Buddhism

By Matthew McMullen

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Winter in Patlikuhl

New fiction from Tibet

By Tenzin Dickie

Recently, Under the Bodhi Tree

Full ordination for nuns—a status that has been denied women for almost a thousand years—has been revived in Tibetan Buddhism.

By Janet Gyatso

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Why I Quit Guru Yoga

Does elevating the guru to the same status as the teachings themselves set the stage for teacher-student abuse?

By Stephen Batchelor

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If the Buddha Were Called to Jury Duty

When a therapist tries to beat the system, he’s given a taste of his own medicine—and a lesson about right speech.

By Mark Epstein

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Globalism 3.0

The secret to world harmony isn’t oneness. It’s multiplicity.

By Kurt Spellmeyer

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The Original Buddhist Rebel

Shinran, the founder of Shin Buddhism, broke with Japanese tradition to start a religion of radical egalitarianism that opened the benefits of Buddhism to everyone.

By Mark Unno

Meet a Sangha: Red Rose Sangha

Meet Red Rose Sangha, a Zen community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar

Expressing the Inexpressible

In search of true words

By Taylor Plimpton

What Went Wrong

An interview with Tibetan psychologist Lobsang Rapgay about student-teacher relationships that turn abusive

By Emma Varvaloucas

Buddha Buzz Winter 2017

All the latest in Buddhist goings-on: books, news, and more

By Marie Scarles

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Books in Brief

Covering the latest in Buddhist publishing

By Marie Scarles

Meditation App Roundup: Winter 2017

Caitlin Van Dusen reviews three meditation apps: 10% Happier, Zen Bound 2, and My Gratitude Journal

By Caitlin Van Dusen

This Buddhist Life: Damcho Dyson

A Q&A with the former Tibetan Buddhist nun, PhD candidate, and latex lover

By Emma Varvaloucas

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Capturing True Suchness on Film

Edward A. Burger’s film One Mind is an open exploration into the state of mind that is cultivated and lived at Zhenru Chan temple in China’s Jiangxi province.

By Dale S. Wright

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T’ao Ch’ien on Ambition

Lines by the 4th-century Chinese poet

By T'ao Ch'ien

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From Catholic to Chemist to Buddhist Missionary

The story of how an Italian immigrant from Brooklyn helped to bring the dharma back to India

By Philip Deslippe

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The Power of the Third Moment

The look you gave the driver who cut you off. The email you shouldn’t have sent. There’s an effective way to avoid acting on your worst emotions.

By Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche

Letters to the Editor

A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers

By The Editors

Unhistoric Acts

A letter from Tricycle’s editor

By James Shaheen

Brief Teachings

Select wisdom from sources old and new

By The Editors, Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Karmapas Work Together to Identify Reincarnated Lama

Tibetan New Year festivities cut back over coronavirus risk, the two claimants to the title of Karmapa will jointly identify the Shamarpa’s reincarnation, and a project showcasing Buddhist women shut down. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.

Feb 15, 2020

Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity

Shifting the Ground We Stand On: Buddhist and Western Thinkers Challenge Modernity, introduces a fresh perspective to the dialogue between Buddhism and science. This anthology of Tricycle essays and interviews by Linda Heuman brings together Buddhist scholars, neuroscientists, and cultural critics on the question of finding meaning in our modern world.

Living the Lotus Sutra

Nichiren Shonin taught that the essence of the Lotus Sutra is found by developing faith through chanting what’s called the daimoku (or the odaimoku), the sutra’s sacred title. Myokei Caine-Barrett, the first woman and the first Westerner to hold the position of bishop in the Nichiren Order of North America, leads us through daimoku practice.

Feb 2020

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