How Buddhism Came to Éliane Radigue
The late French composer spent a lifetime mastering elusive yet vast sounds through her Tibetan Buddhist practice and experiments in electronic music.
Culture
Three Haiku
US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze discusses the emotional power and depth of Kobayashi Issa’s poetry.
Mediums and Mountain Ascetics
Following her mother’s death, a writer turns to Japan’s spiritual traditions to find healing and connection.
‘I often recall’
A lyric poem by the Song dynasty writer Li Qingzhao
A Drunken Bee
The life and times of Sunthorn Phu, Thailand’s national poet
Seeing Ozu
Across the filmmaker’s vast and prestigious catalog, the signs of Buddhism are frequent and pointed, and yet, to reduce his films to any particular aesthetic is to miss the forest for the trees.
No Home Go Home / Go Home No Home
Jeffrey Yang’s linked poems and Kazumi Tanaka’s tea-ink drawings search for a way home when return is impossible.
Best of the Haiku Challenge (February 2026)
Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge
‘In a Room of One Thousand Buddhas’
Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection mythologizes her own family history in a haunting portrait of generational trauma and collective healing.
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