
Trike Daily Obituaries
Remembering Buddhist Psychoanalyst Jeremy Safran
A friend and colleague reflects on the New School professor’s life following his tragic passing.
A friend and colleague reflects on the New School professor’s life following his tragic passing.
Ken Jones, a dharma teacher with the UK-based Western Chan Fellowship and an important voice in socially engaged Buddhism, left this dew-drop world Sunday, August 2, after a long illness, at the age of 85. His professional career was in higher education, supplemented by many years as a peace, ecology, and social justice activist. His […]
Ruth Denison was one of the first female dharma teachers in the West, renowned for pioneering an unconventional, body-centered approach to Buddhist practice and for launching hundreds of students on the Buddhist path. Earlier this month, she suffered a massive stroke and, according to her wishes, received no life-prolonging intervention. Denison spent her last days […]
After over a month of political turmoil, the 14th Shamar Rinpoche is cremated in Nepal.
The influential teacher leaves a mixed legacy.
A poem in memory of Artemisa Salinas (1932–2011)
The annual festival of Guru Purnima celebrates teachers of all stripes, and the capacity to lead others to enlightenment.
Peter Matthiessen—prolific author, naturalist, activist, and Zen priest—passed away at his home in Sagaponack, NY, on Saturday, April 5. He was 86. His death—three days prior to the release of his newest novel, In Paradise—marks the end of his struggle with leukemia, for which he was undergoing chemotherapy. Matthiessen was introduced to Zen practice by […]
San Francisco Zen Center’s first central abbot, Myogen Steve Stücky, died shortly after 4:00 on the morning of December 31 at his home in Rohnert Park, California. He was 67. Since receiving a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer in late September, he has been widely admired for courageously sharing publicly his ongoing personal process […]
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