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Back Issues
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By The Editors
A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen
By James Shaheen
Contributors include Robert Neubecker, Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar, Bernhard Pörksen, and Koshin Paley Ellison
By The Editors
Revisiting how we view enlightenment—and how we view teachers—may help us navigate issues of sexual abuse.
By David Loy
Q&A with Karla Jackson-Brewer, an authorized teacher at the Tara Mandala Retreat Center, an adjunct professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies departments at Rutgers University, and an integrative therapist in New York City.
By The Editors
Marc Lesser, Zen teacher and CEO, addresses ethics in the workplace
By Marc Lesser
How Person in Lotus Position found its way onto your phone
By Carolyn Gregoire
The happiest and unhappiest apps, apps’ annual revenues, the ranking of meditation apps, and more data on the economics of mindfulness
By The Editors
The professor of religion at the University of San Diego visits Mumbai, India, as an educator and pilgrim.
Photographs by Sara Hylton
The Bodhi tree, which marks the spot where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment in Bodhgaya, India, is showing signs of struggle.
By Gabriel Lefferts
A novelist, philosopher, and Soto Zen practitioner talks about what Buddhist book has made a significant impact on his practice.
By Charles Johnson
Bhumisparsha, a virtual sangha started by Lama Rod Owens and Justin von Bujdoss, aims to create a new kind of Buddhist community.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
The latest in Buddhist publishing plus a book worth rereading
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Podcasts, a guided meditation, and music no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
You’ll be one step closer to heaven in this Buddhist paradise.
By Matthew Gindin
The next thing you buy won’t make you happy, but a different attitude may.
By Koshin Paley Ellison
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
Getting to know your cravings can weaken their control over you.
By Rob Nairn, Choden, and Heather Regan-Addis
Our experts explain the etymology of samsara.
By Andrew Olendzki
Our new digital world has made it impossible to believe in infallible teachers. What comes next is up to us.
Interview with Bernhard Pörksen by Ursula Richard
Burying the grief that followed her family’s drowning in the Bermuda Triangle didn’t work. But using meditation to face it did.
By Sarah Conover
On not getting swept up in the political storm
By Daisy Hernández
The work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Japan’s last woodblock master, documented the nation’s turbulent transition into the modern era.
By Gabriel Lefferts
Pure Land Buddhism’s emphasis on universal support is experienced personally as the feeling of “inner togetherness.”
By Jeff Wilson
A renowned teacher gives up a traditional life of protection to seek the extreme and transformational conditions of an anonymous mendicant monk.
By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov
A Canadian academic opened the doors to Tibetan scholarship in the US and produced a generation of Buddhist thinkers.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
The avant-garde artist discusses her award-winning album, Landfall, and how her work and Buddhist practice have merged over time.
By Matthew Abrahams
An exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art reveals the inner workings of power, politics, and Tibetan Buddhism in premodern Asia.
By Anne Doran
Paintings of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, celebrated adepts of old, are presented in a rare complete collection from Tibet.
By Ken McLeod
A centuries-old Korean fantasy novel is alive with Buddhist insight into space and time.
By Douglas Penick
“Learn from this tree: It offers its bountiful canopy of shade, Over your head, Rain or shine; Rain or shine”
By Esma’il Kho’i