Uprooting the Seeds of Anger with Jules Shuzen Harris
Jules Shuzen Harris, Sensei is the author of the article “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger” in the Summer 2012 issue of Tricycle. A dharma heir of Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Shuzen is a priest in the…
Tricycle Talks
Tricycle Talk: Victress Hitchcock, Director of When the Iron Bird Flies
This year’s Tricycle | Buddhafest Online Film Festival features two films by wonderwoman director Victress Hitchcock: Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet and When the Iron Bird Flies. The first opened the film festival by…
Tricycle Talk: Interview with Mark Elliott, Director of Bodhisattva
The Tricycle | Buddhafest Online Film Festival is still going strong. Our new film this week, which started Monday, is Mark Elliott’s Bodhisattva—The Journey of the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa. The film documents Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one…
Tricycle Talk: Congressman Tim Ryan stumps for mindfulness in Washington, DC and beyond
The 2012 Presidential election is the most fractious in memory—just another example of the partisan rancor ruling national politics today. (“Washington is broken,” stated Republican senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, a noted moderate, as she announced…
Tricycle Talk: Mark Verkerk, director of Buddha’s Lost Children
Last week I spoke with Mark Verkerk, the Dutch filmmaker and the director of Buddha’s Lost Children, this week’s BuddhaFest film (you can read about the film and watch the trailer here). Mark shot Buddha’s Lost Children over the…
Chinese Mining Company Might Destroy Ancient Buddhist Ruins in Mes Aynak
More than 2,500 years ago, Buddhists established a sprawling monastery complex in the barren desert just 25 miles southeast of present-day Kabul, Afghanistan, attracted to the remote location because of its rich copper deposits. Mes Aynak,…
Tricycle Talk with Artist Mike Giant
Our Tricycle Talk today is with legendary fine art, tattoo, and graffiti artist Mike Giant, half of the team behind clothing brand Rebel8 and the current Tricycle issue’s featured Buddhist in This Buddhist Life. I had…
Tricycle Talk: Tracking Bodhidharma with Andy Ferguson
Andy Ferguson’s new book, Tracking Bodhidharma: A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture, explores the elusive figure of Bodhidharma, revered as the First Ancestor of Chinese Zen. The book is part travelogue, part history, and…
Fleet Maull Retreat Week 3 Begins Today!
This post contains video. View Preview 3 now Week 3 of Fleet Maull’s online retreat, “Social Awakening: Realizing the Basic Goodness of Society,” starts today! Throughout the month of May, Fleet will present a series of…
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