Extinction The Buddhists of Extinction Rebelliontricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams The environmental activism group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has been making headlines since November 2018, when around 6,000 protesters blocked …
Tibet Sogyal Rinpoche Eulogies Make Victims Disappear, Critics Chargetricycle.org - Karen Jensen In the days after Tibetan Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche’s death, his followers posted to Sogyal’s official website a number of glowing eulogies …
Mindfulness How Korea's "Twitter Monk" Mends Broken Heartstricycle.org - Emma Varvaloucas “Whenever I look at my son and think about all the difficulty he will go through in the future, all I can think about is jumping out of my apartment …
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Mt. Everest Deaths Spur New Climbing Rulestricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. New …
El Paso, TX An El Paso Buddhist Center on Violence and the Seeds of Hatetricycle.org - Helga Carrion On Saturday, August 3, after posting a 2,300-word anti-immigrant manifesto online, a young man used a semi-automatic rifle to open fire at a Walmart …
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Looking Forward, Looking Backtricycle.org - Karen Jensen Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Ladakh …
Mindfulness At Fort Sill, a Prayer That History Would Not Repeat Itselftricycle.org - Duncan Ryuken Williams In the following letter, scholar and Soto Zen priest Duncan Ryuken Williams recounts the events of July 20, 2019, when 25 Buddhist priests and lay …
Mind The Mind Cure?tricycle.org - C. Pierce Salguero In Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford University Press, March 2019, $29.95, 336 pp., cloth), Wakoh Shannon Hickey provides the most …
Tibet Tenzin Mariko: Tibetan Trailblazertricycle.org - Lakshmi Gandhi When Tenzin Mariko decided to step out on stage at the 2015 Miss Tibet pageant, she knew that she was making a life-changing decision. A former monk, …
Tibet The Buddhist Roots of Hatha Yogatricycle.org - Matthew Gindin Much has already been written about how little those of us folding ourselves into downward dogs or stretching backward into camels understand yoga’s …
Mindfulness Making the Invisible Visibletricycle.org - Rhonda Magee Many people react with skepticism—or resist altogether—the idea of microaggressions: subtle insults or assaults that dismiss or degrade based on race …
South Philadelphia The Buddhist Traveler in Philadelphiatricycle.org - Samuel Newhouse “Love silence, even in the mind,” wrote William Penn, Philadelphia’s founding father. “True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit …
A Day in the Dharma: Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, abbot of the Bhavana Society in High View, West Virginiatricycle.org - Susana Raab 8 a.m. After breakfast and morning meditation, I walk on the 1.2-mile path around the Bhavana Society’s property. I do two laps, and it takes two …
Mental Gladiators Clash In Meditation Deathmatchtricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Cheering crowds, flashing lights, high-tech scoring, and a carnival barker directing the action against the backdrop of a bustling festival—and at …
Women's News Toward a Thai Feminist Movementtricycle.org - Caitlin Dwyer We badly need feminist Buddhist scholars and meditation teachers who empower women and many marginalized people,” says Ouyporn Khuankaew. As the …
Buddhism by the Numbers: South Koreatricycle.org - The Editors • Buddhist Broadcasting System • Buddhist Cable TV Network • Buddhist Television Network • Hyundae Bulgyo Buddhist Newspaper The year Buddhism was first …
Behavior Why We Yell and Screamtricycle.org - Patricia Ullman The other day I was talking with a friend about the sexual abuse in my former spiritual community, and she said that she didn’t think so-and-so was …
Mindfulness A Transgender Buddhist Trailblazer 20+ Years Latertricycle.org - Caitriona Reed Buddhist teacher and practitioner Caitriona Reed came out as a “woman of transgender experience” in her article “Coming Out Whole,” published in …
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Ancient Buddhist City Becomes World Heritage Sitetricycle.org - Karen Jensen Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. …
Emptiness and Filling Out Forms: A Practical Approach to Deathtricycle.org - Rena Graham As a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, I am constantly reminded that we never know when death might approach, but for years, I’d avoided dealing with …
Cats “You Have a Church for Cats?” The Service of an Animal Chaplaintricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams When interfaith chaplain Sarah Bowen tells people that she is also an animal chaplain, the reaction is often the same: “You have a church for …
Students This Is Abusetricycle.org - Damcho Dyson Artist and former nun Damcho Dyson delivered the following speech about her experience with disgraced Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche, who has been …
Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women Holds First Post-#MeToo Conferencetricycle.org - Karen Jensen The Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women hosted its 16th conference in late June, gathering over 800 Buddhist nuns and laywomen …
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Refuge Recovery Splitstricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Refuge …
The Buddhist Traveler in Vancouvertricycle.org - Matthew Gindin Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada, has consistently been voted one of the “best cities in the world.” Nestled between the mountains and the …
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Shambhala “Assault” Arresttricycle.org - Matthew Abrahams Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Former …
The Story Behind the Dalai Lama’s Controversial Remarkstricycle.org - Tenzin Mingyur Paldron The Internet is buzzing with an excerpt from a BBC interview with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. In it, he repeats a joke he made in 2015 that a …
How a Forest Monastery Took Root in British Columbiatricycle.org - Matthew Gindin On a sparsely populated mountain five hours northeast of Vancouver by car, lies a cutting-edge, off-the-grid monastery that is a paragon of green …
Buddhism Buddha Buzz Weekly: Dalai Lama on Trumptricycle.org - Karen Jensen Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Dalai …
