
Culture

Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge

Marking Time and Making Meaning
Experimental musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma discusses the role of devotion in his music, his Zen practice, and his work as a hospice chaplain.

Origin of Origins
A new look at Amaravati, an important Buddhist monument that hints at the dawn of the Mahayana

Best of the Haiku Challenge (April 2025)
Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge

‘Seeking’ and Other Poems
Three poems from a longtime Tricycle reader

The Bardo of Dementia
Ocean Vuong’s new novel follows the unlikely friendship between a young writer on the edge of suicide and an elderly widow reckoning with the loss of her memory.

CultureMagazine | Openings, The Buddhist Traveler In
The Buddhist Traveler in Boulder
Finding tranquility in “America’s happiest city”

CultureMagazine | Parting Words
Startled by the Moon a Magpie Took Off
A poem by Xin Qiji

CultureMagazine | Book Reviews, Books
Love, Thay
Who knew Thich Nhat Hanh was a prolific correspondent?

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