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Tricycle’s Buddhist Gift Guide 2018
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
In most Buddhist traditions, the winter solstice is not a time for presents wrapped in paper with big bows on top. While there are Buddhist cultures …
Kathok Getse Rinpoche, Head of the Nyingma School, Is Dead at 64
tricycle.org - Joan Duncan Oliver
Gyurme Tenpa Gyaltsen, the fourth Kathok Getse Rinpoche and the seventh head of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, died on November 19 of …
Me Too movement
What We're Reading
tricycle.org - Eliza Rockefeller
A Call for Revolution: A Vision for the Future by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Sofia Stril-Rever. William Morrow, November 2018, $18.99, 128 pp., …
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A Diversity of Voices
tricycle.org - Sheila Burt
In the late 1990s, as South Africa grappled with the shadow of apartheid, Cape Town experimental artist James Webb, then working in advertising, …
Brad Pitt
How a Buddhist Memory Champion Trains Her Mind
tricycle.org - Lakshmi Gandhi
Mind training has a long history in Buddhism, but when the 11th-century Tibetan master Geshe Langri Tangpa wrote the Eight Verses for Training the …
New (Free) Recordings Let the Suttas Speak for Themselves
tricycle.org - Cara Dibdin
The suttas of the Pali Canon are teeming with wisdom, and yet it can be difficult to muster up the motivation to actually read them. If you feel …
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Under a New Light
tricycle.org - Matthew Gindin
I was always working steady But I never called it art I was funding my depression Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it’s bright …
Human Rights
An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist
tricycle.org - Maung Zarni
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, a well-known teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism, surprised some in the Buddhist world recently when he penned an open …
Mind Nature: Red Pill or Blue Pill?
tricycle.org - Ken McLeod
The experience of mind nature is, for almost everyone, a turning point in their practice. The utter groundlessness of experience, when you know it …
Buddhism
The Dangers of Diluted Buddhism
tricycle.org - Lama Jampa Thaye
In today’s Western society, where the dominant cultural systems are failing to provide explanations for life’s philosophical questions, a space has …
Exploring What Is
tricycle.org - Douglas Penick
I It becomes clear, as we move into old age, that the world is moving away from us. It is no longer possible for us to leap into the world, as …
Karma
How to Watch a Thai Ghost Movie
tricycle.org - May Cat
Inside a dark cave with shadowy wall paintings of hungry ghosts, a monk tells the teenage Pey, “I know you don’t like being controlled or told what …
Leaked Against the Stream Report Challenges Previous Accounts
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
As Against the Stream Meditation Society (ATS) closed its doors in September, their embattled founder, Noah Levine, claimed that the allegations of …
Buddhism
The Moving Mandala: Inside Bhutan’s Sacred Dance Festivals
tricycle.org - Karen Greenspan
In the world of Himalayan Buddhism, there is hardly anyone of greater influence than Padmasambhava, whom Buddhists of the region consider to be the …
Zen Roshi Bernie Glassman Passes Away
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
The influential Zen teacher and activist Roshi Tetsugen Bernie Glassman died Sunday morning in Massachusetts. He was 79.The Zen Peacemakers, a global …
Triratna Buddhism founder Sangharakshita dies at 93
tricycle.org - Joan Duncan Oliver
Urgyen Sangharakshita, the iconoclastic, sometimes controversial founder of Triratna Buddhism, a non-sectarian Buddhist movement with an …
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The State of Mindful Resistance
tricycle.org - Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
The phrase “Mindful Resistance” came to Robert Wright during a meditation retreat in the spring of 2017. Wright, a science journalist and bestselling …
How Can We Respond to Violent Hate?
tricycle.org - Lawrence Levy
How should we react to actions driven by hate? There’s no easy answer to that question. And as hateful acts and rhetoric become more frequent, the …
Sutta Study: About Cunda
tricycle.org - Peter Doobinin
This article is part of Trike Daily’s Sutta Study series, led by Insight meditation teacher Peter Doobinin. The suttas, found in the Pali Canon, …
The Monsters of Buddhism—Inside and Out
tricycle.org - Julia Hirsch
While there is no shortage of serene and benevolent buddhas, Buddhist folklore abounds with hell-raising zombies, vampires, ghouls, and ogres. But …
Suffering at the Synagogue
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
On Saturday night, following a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, I was taking the subway to a Halloween party when I tried …
Buddhism
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Selected articles about Buddhism from Tricycle Magazine
Enlightenments, Not Enlightenment
tricycle.org - Jack Kornfield
Once a month, Tricycle features an article from the Inquiring Mind archive. Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist journal that was in print from 1984–2015, has …
How a Photographer Captured the Exquisite Details of the Murals of Tibet
tricycle.org - Jeff Goldberg
An extraordinary book has recently gone on display at the Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles and the Taschen bookstore in New York City. Murals of Tibet, …
What Did the Buddha Say About Lying?
tricycle.org - Matthew Gindin
The Buddha took a hard line on truth.“One who feels no shame at telling a deliberate lie,” the Buddha told a monk after dramatically pouring out the …
A Nomad’s Journey from Tibet to the Tattoo Parlor
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
Tamding Tsetan is a multi-instrumentalist, tattoo artist, calligrapher, and political activist whose work seeks to preserve his Tibetan heritage …
Karmapas Unite
tricycle.org - Gabriel Lefferts
Two prominent Tibetan Buddhist leaders—Ogyen Trinley Dorje and Thaye Dorje, who are rival claimants to the title of 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma …
Is Virtual Reality Getting Too Real?
tricycle.org - Andrew Holecek
Tech moguls and gamers aren’t the only ones plugging into artificial virtual worlds these days. VR programs have helped treat phobias and PTSD, NASA …
Why Are There So Many Black Buddhists?
tricycle.org - J. Sunara Sasser
Most people who have spent time in American Buddhist communities would read my title as sarcastic. As numerous writers have noted, many Buddhist …
Inside a Psycho-Spiritual Town Hall
tricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams
The Buddha emphasized the importance of compassion, including it in the four virtues known as the brahmaviharas, or four immeasurables. But while …

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Tricycle’s Buddhist Gift Guide 2018

Kathok Getse Rinpoche, Head of the Nyingma School, Is Dead at 64

What We're Reading

A Diversity of Voices

How a Buddhist Memory Champion Trains Her Mind

New (Free) Recordings Let the Suttas Speak for Themselves

Leonard Cohen Under a New Light

An Open Letter to Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche from a Burmese Buddhist

Mind Nature: Red Pill or Blue Pill?

The Dangers of Diluted Buddhism

Exploring What Is

How to Watch a Thai Ghost Movie

Leaked Against the Stream Report Challenges Previous Accounts

The Moving Mandala: Inside Bhutan’s Sacred Dance Festivals

Zen Roshi Bernie Glassman Passes Away

Triratna Buddhism founder Sangharakshita dies at 93

The State of Mindful Resistance

How Can We Respond to Violent Hate?

Sutta Study: About Cunda

The Monsters of Buddhism—Inside and Out

Suffering at the Synagogue

Buddhism

Enlightenments, Not Enlightenment

How a Photographer Captured the Exquisite Details of the Murals of Tibet

What Did the Buddha Say About Lying?

A Nomad’s Journey from Tibet to the Tattoo Parlor

Karmapas Unite

Is Virtual Reality Getting Too Real?

Why Are There So Many Black Buddhists?

Inside a Psycho-Spiritual Town Hall