‘Voice for the Voiceless’
The Dalai Lama’s new book offers a searing political account of Tibet’s fate—and a vision of compassion-based resistance.
Culture
‘Architectures of Emptiness’
Arthur Sze’s twelfth book of poetry dances between silence and sound and asks how we can live fully in the face of catastrophe.
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
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.
Falling Angels
A Zen reading of Leonard Cohen’s life and art
Best of the Haiku Challenge (February 2025)
Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge
Chee Shimizu’s Organic Music
The Tokyo-based DJ, record store owner, and deep listening advocate on the Buddhist threads that connect his vast and varied produce
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.
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