‘A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)’
Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Yvonne Low reflect on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
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.
Kosen Ohtsubo’s ‘Flower Planet’
The enfant terrible of ikebana speaks with Tricycle’s Mike Sheffield about free jazz music, Indian lingams, and the connection between flower arranging and the surrender of gassho.
Selling the Buddha
Restituting the Piprahwa relics to Buddhist custodianship
Portraits of Paradox
Chinese artist Xie Nanxing paints an escape from painting.
Shiro Tsujimura’s Exploded Forms
Contemporary ceramist Shiro Tsujimura combines traditional Japanese styles of pottery with avant-garde sensibilities, aspiring to bring out the mu of each vessel he creates.
Forever a Student
Playwright Sarah Ruhl discusses what her teachers have taught her from preschool to the present.
Buddhist Poet Ocean Vuong on Failure, Redemption, and Second Chances
The best-selling author discusses his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness.
Embodying Enlightenment
Exploring the sacred ritual dances of Vajrayana Buddhism
‘We All Talk to Spirits When We Are Identified as Numbers’
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.
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