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Tricycle’s Winter 2018 special section, which focuses on sharing largely unknown practices in the Western Buddhist world, includes: “Ayya Kema: Recognizing the Four Elements,“ by Ayya Khema “Listening to Silence,” by Dharma Master Hsin Tao “If You Want To Get Enlightened, You’ll Have to Find Your Hara First,” by Ken Kushner “Getting Started with the […]
By The Editors
Though this chant to foster gratitude and connection is the main practice of one of Buddhism’s major schools, many are surprisingly unfamiliar with it.
By Dharmavidya David Brazier
The key to meditative concentration is not mental, but physical—and you can find it in your lower abdomen.
By Ken Kushner
Connecting with the earth, fire, water, and air within us connects us with all of existence.
By Ayya Khema
Complete stillness leads to complete awakening.
By Dharma Master Hsin Tao, edited and translated by Maria Reis Habito
Many of the studies touting meditation and mindfulness benefits are not methodologically sound.
By Matthew Abrahams
Seeing the Buddha as both human and divine opens us to our own limitless nature.
By Kurt Spellmeyer
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, through the lens of India’s premier photographer
Photographs by Raghu Rai
A living legend among climbers, Dick Dorworth set a speed skiing record, fathered five sons by five women, and drowned his demons in alcohol. Then he found Zen.
By Emily Stifler Wolfe
The New Kadampa Tradition is controversial—and growing. Why?
By Judith Hertog
Deep practice mobilizes powerful healing energies—and stirs repressed forces that lie in our subconscious.
By Lawson Sachter, Sunya Kjolhede
Extended contemplative practice can activate buried trauma.
By Josh Korda
James Webb’s Prayer uses recordings of vocal worship to transcend boundaries.
By Sheila Burt
You know about the steaks and the tango. But what about the Zen gardens?
By The Editors
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
How a small but committed group of masons in this former Buddhist kingdom are safeguarding their religious and cultural heritage.
By Julia Hirsch
Suzanne Harvey, likely the only Buddhist in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, wants you to run for office.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Prominent writer and social critic Rebecca Solnit takes on the whole American mess in Call Them by Their True Names.
By Noelle Oxenhandler
Our expert explains the etymology of emptiness.
By Andrew Olendzki
Our worst faults and failings are an opportunity to create something.
By Lama Kathy Wesley
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By The Editors
The latest in Buddhist publishing plus a book worth rereading.
By Eliza Rockefeller, Gabriel Lefferts, Emma Varvaloucas
The only year the Dalai Lama visited, how much a retreat might cost you, and more dharma data from the Bluegrass state
By The Editors
Q&A with Dr. Maria Reis Habito, Zen teacher at the Maria Kannon Zen Center and international program director for the Museum of World Religions.
By The Editors
A letter from Tricycle‘s editor, James Shaheen.
By James Shaheen
Featured contributors include Raghu Rai, Master Hsin Tao, Carla Frank, and Martin O’Neill.
By The Editors
An inside look at the daily activities of a dharma teacher
Photographs by Lily Landes
Leap Beads, a new product from Acer, counts how many mantras you recite so that you don’t have to.
By Lauren Krauze
Netflix ventures into a contemplation of impermanence with End Game
By Pamela Gayle White
In his new book, Bodhipaksa shares his methods for spotting viral online Buddha quotes that the Buddha definitely never said.
With Eliza Rockefeller and Bodhipaksa
Her debut novel tackles—what else?—teacher-student relationships gone bad.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Learning to be alone without being lonely
By Ezra Bayda
After tourists left negative reviews of a temple-stay in Japan, one uninhibited Shingon priest decided to respond.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar5 podcasts no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
A quick reflection on time
By Fujiwara no Kiyosuke