
Art
Meet Buddhist artists, explore historical Buddhist artwork, and see how Buddhist concepts show up in and inspire visual art, film, music, dance, poetry, and more. For more, view the portfolio section of Tricycle magazine, which highlights contemporary Buddhist art.

Tony Koji Wallin-Sato’s poetry asks what it means to be free and reckons with the legacy of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Watching Ourselves in ‘The White Lotus’: Season 3
How the HBO series invites us to take a look at our own monkey minds

Music as an Offering
American ambient music purveyor Jefre Cantu-Ledesma on his antivocational artistry, ordaining as a Zen priest, and his Shaker-inspired album, Gift Songs

The Edge of Language
National Book Award–winning poet Arthur Sze discusses what it means for art to awaken us to what is.

How Realistic Is the Buddhism of ‘The White Lotus’?
Tricycle talks with scholars, teachers, and former monastics about the popular show’s depiction of the dharma.

Breathing Light
Artist Joseph Ramirez and Buddhist teacher Justin von Bujdoss discuss dark meditation and Ramirez’s work, The Gold Projections, with Tricycle’s Philip Ryan.

Letting the Ink Flow
Japanese artist Yoshio Ikezaki’s new works embrace impermanence, intuition, and the energy of change.

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Spring-Watching Pavilion
Where is nirvana?

Naked Reality
How Buddhist practice shaped Marina Abramovic’s performance art

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