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Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online stories.
By The Editors
A letter from Tricycle’s editor
By James Shaheen
Featured contributors include sculptor Dashi Namdakov, author Natalie Goldberg, multimedia journalist Adrienne Bard, and Mike Gillis, head writer of the satirical newspaper The Onion.
By The Editors
A Tibetan American climate activist and social entrepreneur talks about her Buddhist upbringing, coming to the US, and her visionary climate center.
Interview by Eliza Rockefeller
Buddhist communities consider if, when, and how to reopen.
By Liz Kineke
A Q&A with Guo Gu, founder of and teacher at the Tallahassee Chan Center and Sheng Yen Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism at Florida State University
By The Editors
Insight Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield reflects on two books that made a significant impact on his practice.
By Jack Kornfield
Practitioners of this Lower Manhattan sangha adjust to life in the pandemic.
Photographs by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
Printable aids for the pillars of Buddhist practice
By The Editors
A dancer, yoga instructor, and retired special education teacher talks about developing communities where bodies of all ages are welcome.
Interview by with Dianne Scott by Anne Doran
The latest in Buddhist publishing, plus a book worth rereading
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Two guided practices, music by a beatboxing monk, and a podcast episode that no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Tricycle invites you to take the Haiku Challenge.
By Clark Strand
Dharma activity in the republic where freedom of religion became law only in 2015, some 14 years after the country became independent from Russia in 1991
By The Editors
The delights of living a life of service
By Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara
How to digest a dharma talk and meditate on its wisdom
By Andrew Holecek
A brief teaching from a Chan teacher
By Guo Gu
A brief teaching from a psychotherapist
By Ralph De La Rosa
A brief teaching from the founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Institute
By Khentrul Rinpoche
A brief teaching from the founder of the Mindful of Race Institute
By Ruth King
Bukiet presents innovative practices that address the needs of younger meditators.
By Adrienne Bard de Palazuelos
Enlightenment: it’s not just for monastics.
By Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer
It’s more than wisdom.
By Andrew Olendzki
Tricycle’s free online source for newcomers offers answers to all the questions you were hesitant to ask aloud.
By The Editors
As the dharma grows in the West, it will be shaped by our deeply rooted ideas about human flourishing.
By Seth Zuiho Segall | Illustrations by Eddie Guy
Caregivers are there when we’re born. Now they guide us through our final days.
By Sallie Tisdale | Photographs by Joshua Bright
Why delight in others’ happiness—mudita—matters now
By Daisy Hernández | Illustrations by Dan Bejar
Buryat artist Dashi Namdakov crafts sculptures that reflect his Buddhist and shamanistic heritage.
By Eliza Rockefeller
A writer revisits the Japanese master whose “woman’s haiku” could not be ignored.
By Natalie Goldberg
The author reflects on the time he spent with the revered Vietnamese Zen monk in the early 1970s.
By Fred Eppsteiner
A new reading of the ancient scripture surfaces a forgotten Buddhist practice.
By Jayarava Attwood | Illustrations by John Karborn
How a technique developed by a British philosopher became a companion for Zen practitioners
By Michael Haederle | Illustrations by Moron Eel
The documentary series The Vow delivers plenty of drama but little insight.
By Matthew Remski
When killing zombies is a chance to create new karma
By Mike Gillis
The life of Mayumi Oda
By Lane Olson
“At my window / the rain raves, raves about dying”
By Arthur Sze