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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
By James Shaheen
Featured contributors include Buddhist scholar Jan Willis, photographer Celeste Sloman, high school student Liv Bailey, and writer Sallie Tisdale
By The Editors
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, three Buddhist couples share their love stories and talk about how the teachings apply to romance.
By Emma Varvaloucas
A Tibetan lama uses 3D printing technology to add greater depth to the Western understanding of an ancient teaching.
By Matthew Abrahams
Why Julio Rivera created Liberate
By Lakshmi Gandhi
An inside look at the daily activities of a Theravada Buddhist teacher
Photographs by Sally Thomson
After recording his latest album, a Buddhist songwriter discovers its meaning during a nine-month retreat.
By Emily DeMaioNewton
This fall, several hundred Buddhist teachers and practitioners gathered for what organizers called a “transformational” coming together of Buddhist teachers and practitioners of Black African descent.
By The Editors
The year Chinese immigrants to San Francisco established the US’s first Buddhist temple, the percentage of Golden State adults who meditate, and more dharma data from California
By The Editors
A longtime proponent of mindfulness in sports talks about personal practice and his work helping players turn inward.
By Alex Tzelnic
The latest in Buddhist publishing, plus a book worth rereading
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
An audiobook, dharma talk and guided meditation, album, and podcast that no Buddhist listener should miss
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Liv Bailey, a student at Maine’s Yarmouth High School, reviews a new mindful activity book for teens.
By Liv Bailey
A glimpse of the latest in Buddhist books for kids
By Sumi Loundon Kim
Q&A with Christina Feldman, an Insight Meditation teacher at Bodhi College and co-founder of Gaia House, a silent retreat center in the UK
By The Editors
Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and teacher, talks about what Buddhist book has made a significant impact on her practice.
By Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
An insider’s guide to Nepal’s iconic Buddhist sites, plus hidden treasures you shouldn’t miss
By Julia Hirsch and Joan Duncan Oliver
We can learn to let go of our negative conceptions of ourselves when we realize that they’re real but not true.
By Tara Brach
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
Has it been a while since you meditated? Meditation teacher and psychotherapist Mindy Newman helps you get back on track.
By Mindy Newman
How a closer look at our likes and dislikes can lead to equanimity
By Sayadaw U Tejaniya
The meaning of sati
By Andrew Olendzki
The following is from Buddhism for Beginners, our Q&A-based website designed to cover the Buddhist basics.
By The Editors
An African American professor of Buddhism looks at race, class, and American dharma.
By Jan Willis | Artwork by Betye Saar
Why the present moment isn’t the goal
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The challenges and rewards of being alone
By Stephen Batchelor
The Lotus Sutra is one of the foremost Buddhist texts, but to the uninitiated reader, it can make little or no sense.
Interview with Jacqueline Stone and Donald S. Lopez Jr. by James Shaheen
New objections to the practice and its Buddhist roots being taught to children reveal a need for a coordinated response.
By Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
A portrait of the musician as a Vajrayana practitioner
By Benjamin Bogin, Portraits by Celeste Sloman
A practitioner reflects on her mother’s uniquely challenging qualities following a trip to the emergency room.
By Barbara Gates
A writer reconsiders his craft.
By Henry Shukman
Without clear moral guidelines, the author struggles with her pet’s failing health.
By Sallie Tisdale
Emily Sigalow’s American JewBu traces the history of the Jewish encounter with Buddhism in the US.
By Matthew Abrahams
A Silicon Valley data scientist and Zen priest reflects on Jenny Odell’s instant classic, How to Do Nothing.
By Dan Zigmond
“the screen / stays backlit and empty / thus I meet myself again / hopeful and useless / a mystery”
By Jane Hirshfield