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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 photographer Shiho Fukada, writer Hawa Allan, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Khentrul Rinpoche, and artist Andrea Chung.
By The Editors
In a country where Buddhism has become a “funeral religion,” one Zen monk hopes to use the popular Westernized practice to revive his tradition.
By Karen Jensen
An inside look at the daily activities of a Shinnyo-en Buddhist priest in New York City
Photographs by Jeenah Moon
A centering practice for when trauma is reactivated
By Josh Korda
For over 20 years, a Bon Buddhist community has brought a bit of Tibet to Virginia’s wooded hills.
By Joan Duncan Oliver
The number of Tibetan volumes in the University of Virginia’s library, the state’s tallest stupa, and more dharma data from Virginia
By The Editors
The latest in Buddhist publishing, plus a book worth rereading
By Joan Duncan Oliver and Cara Dibdin
Podcasts and a guided meditation that no Buddhist listener should miss
By Joan Duncan Oliver
Greyston Bakery’s open-hire policy has sparked international interest in taking up the Zen-inspired practice.
By Lauren Krauze
Q&A with teacher and writer Bodhipaksa, a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and founder of the online meditation center Wildmind.
By The Editors
Joan Jiko Halifax Roshi, author, Zen Buddhist priest, and abbot of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe talks about what Buddhist book has made a significant impact on her practice.
By Joan Halifax
Not just for lovers, the City of Light holds treasures for dharma devotees in all seasons.
By Jennifer Ladonne
How a Zen nun discovered generosity in receiving
By Hai An (Sister Ocean)
Select wisdom from sources old and new
By The Editors
Tibetan Buddhism’s nonsectarian rimé philosophy offers four steps for folding ideological diversity into your spiritual practice.
By Khentrul Rinpoche
The meaning of dharma
By Andrew Olendzki
The following is from Buddhism for Beginners, our Q&A-based website, designed to cover the Buddhist basics.
By The Editors
Why getting what we crave will not lead to happiness—and what will
By Joseph Goldstein
When we lose a loved one, we lose a part of ourselves
By Douglas Penick
A Japanese devotee’s journey from Catholicism to Zen
By Yuko Wakayama Yamada with Lon Kurashige
Artist Iwasaki Tsuneo uses characters from the Heart Sutra to represent a cosmic principle.
By Paula Arai
Satori—or awakening—is a living engagement with the world.
By Dharmavidya David Brazier
Pure Land Buddhism shows a way to flip the script on failure: falling short is the way we move forward.
By Andrew Cooper
For more than two decades, Losang Samten has spread lessons of interdependence in the West through Tibetan Buddhist sand mandalas.
Interview with Losang Samten by Anne Doran and Frank Olinsky
A senior student struggles with the loss of her teacher and change in her spiritual community.
By Sandy Boucher
A tale based on actual events
By David Schneider
Survivors of the Charleston church shooting respond by embracing the tenets of their faith.
By Hawa Allan
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s new film brings viewers into the emotional heart of Tibetan life in exile.
By Julia Hirsch
“A life of debts I could never repay / pushing in on all sides / like the weight of the sea.”
By Mutta, Translated by Matty Weingast