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The Conversation
Magazine | Letters to the Editor, The Conversation
Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
Magazine | Letter from the Editor, The Conversation
Mere Ideas?
A letter from Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
Magazine | Featured Contributors, The Conversation
Featured Contributors
Featured contributors include Karen Ready, Sunita Puri, Devin Berry, and Rebecca Li
Openings
A Game Changer for Classical Tibetan Translation?
A translator of Tibetan texts tests his skill against AI chatbots.
Magazine | Openings, Sacred Sites
Sacred Sites: Lawai Valley
Nestled in Kauai's lush forests lies a small-scale replica of Japan's Shikoku Pilgrimage.
CultureMagazine | Openings, What's in a Painting?
The Dancing Skeletons
A Himalayan art expert explains the meaning and ritual uses of these "lords of the funeral pyre."
CultureMagazine | Openings, Podcasts
Limitless Delights
An excerpt from a conversation between poet Ross Gay, Tricycle's editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg
Magazine | Openings, Visiting Teacher
Visiting Teacher: Kaira Jewel Lingo
A Q&A with Kaira Jewel Lingo, a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition whose teaching focuses on activists, educators, artists, youth and families, and BIPOC seekers
CultureMagazine | Books, Openings
What We’re Reading
The latest in Buddhist publishing, plus a book worth rereading
CultureMagazine | Audio Dharma, Openings
What We’re Listening to
Two podcasts, a podcast series, and a guided meditation that no Buddhist listener should miss
CultureMagazine | Openings, The Buddhist Traveler In
The Buddhist Traveler in Queens
Dharma takes many forms in New York City's most diverse borough.
CultureMagazine | On Haiku, Openings
The Snowflake Sutra
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge evokes the wisdom of a world before written language.
Magazine | By the Numbers, Openings
Buddhism by the Numbers in New York City
The three jewels in the five boroughs
Teachings
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Dreaming Together
In the theater of life, emptiness and compassion go hand in hand.
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings, In Brief
No Wonder Without Humility
A brief teaching from a Buddhist teacher on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Beyond Form and Emptiness
We can't find freedom without limitations.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk, Teachings
Meditation and Jodo Shinshu
Shin Buddhism is known for emphasizing chanting over sitting, but according to one priest, the two work best together.
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings, In Brief
Speaking with Love
A brief teaching on true love from monk, author, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh
Magazine | Meet a Teacher, Teachings
Meet a Teacher: Khedrupchen Rinpoche
A tulku adds social work to his dharmic responsibilities.
TeachingsMagazine | In Brief, Teachings
Drop by Drop
Cultivating wholesome qualities one moment at a time
TeachingsMagazine | Teachings, What's in a Word?
What’s in a Word: Papañca
Thinking, thinking, thinking...
TeachingsMagazine | Teachings, The Five Hindrances
Working with the Five Hindrances: Ill Will
Printable aids for the pillars of Buddhist practice
MeditationMagazine | Practice, Teachings
Love in Action
Embodying lovingkindness and compassion
TeachingsMagazine | Brief Teachings, In Brief
The Dog and the Lion
A brief teaching from a Buddhist monk
Features
No Mud, No Lotus
Actor Michael Imperioli on Buddhism, patience, and gratitude
Remnants of Devotion
Once central to Japanese Buddhist families, many butsudan, or home shrines, now collect dust in temple basements.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Translating Silence
A multilingual practitioner’s nonlinear lineage
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
A Gift
A palliative care physician confronts impermanence in her own life.
The Greatest Fullness
With a reverence for the natural world, Ito Jakuchu’s artwork highlights the buddhanature in each of its subjects.
Stuck in Stories
With practice, we can rewrite them.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Unhealed
A Tibetan refugee’s fractured dreams of home in exile
Why Should I Appreciate Life?
Practicing gratitude is not easy, but according to Maezumi Roshi and Friedrich Nietzsche, loving our fate is essential.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Break Through or Die Trying
Ready to lay down his life as a kamikaze pilot, Tangen Harada Roshi instead channeled his fervor into Zen.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Finding the Words
In his seventy-fifth year, a surprising thing happened to meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein: He began writing poetry.
Reviews
CultureMagazine | Games, Reviews
Link in Samsara
The Legend of Zelda series takes another trip around the wheel
CultureMagazine | Books, Reviews
The Varieties of Meditative Experience
David McMahan argues that practice is a conditioned phenomenon.
CultureMagazine | Books, Reviews
The Other Dr. Ambedkar
A newly translated memoir shines a light on the woman who supported the larger-than-life figure.
Parting Words
I Open The Window
Jane Hirshfield reflects on interior and exterior worlds in a poem from her latest collection.