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How Korea’s “Twitter Monk” Mends Broken Hearts
“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 window together with my baby.’” Haemin Sunim,...
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The Buddhist Traveler in Philadelphia
“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 what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
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At Fort Sill, a Prayer That History Would Not Repeat Itself
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 leaders joined over 400 demonstrators in Oklahoma to...
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An El Paso Buddhist Center on Violence and the Seeds of Hate
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 in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people and wounding...
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A New Initiative Grapples with Collective Traumas
Meeting on monthly video calls, several people sit together, close their eyes, and after several minutes of silence, turn their attention to Brexit. On another day, the topic may be the Syrian civil...
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The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . — From “The New Colossus” by poet Emma Lazarus, inscribed on the Statue of Liberty At the same time the news was...
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The Buddhists of Extinction Rebellion
The environmental activism group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has been making headlines since November 2018, when around 6,000 protesters blocked traffic on five bridges in London at their first...
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Unionizing Yoga
At the start of a yoga class, the teacher often shares a common definition of the word yoga: union. Union of the body and the mind, union of the individual self with a larger consciousness. But over...
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Indigenous Dharma
Once a month, Tricycle features an article from Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist journal that was in print from 1984–2015 and now has a growing number of back issues archived at inquiringmind.com. This...
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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Thich Nhat Hanh Turns 93
Nothing is permanent, everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting and otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Happy 93rd Birthday, Thich Nhat Hanh! Thich Nhat Hanh...
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Two Ingredients for Business Success: Not-Knowing and Trust
Shawna Swanson was a single mom with five kids when she received a job offer from Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, New York. “I hadn’t worked because I stayed at home to raise them,” she told Tricycle....
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The Buddhist Traveler in Paris
Buddhism in France has come a long way since 1912, when the writer and explorer Alexandra David-Néel introduced herself to the 13th Dalai Lama as “the first Buddhist in Paris.” Today, in a population...
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Can Mindfulness Save Buddhism in Japan?
In the western imagination, Buddhist meditation in Japan evokes the stoic monk sitting full lotus on a tatami mat or the lone hermit climbing to his mountain hut. But in today’s Japan, the models for...
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No Time To Lose
The following article was adapted from scholar and environmentalist Joanna Macy’s talk at the “No Time To Lose: A Dharma Response to Climate Change” event hosted by Spirit Rock Meditation Center in...
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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Ceremony to Mourn Japan’s Unused Vacation Days
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Japan to Host Buddhist Ceremony to Mourn Unused Holidays...
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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vietnamese Monk and Activist Thich Tri Quang Dies at 95
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Thich Tri Quang, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk and Wartime...
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Mon Refugees from Myanmar Build a Buddhist Community in Akron, Ohio
The nation of Myanmar, formerly Burma, is made up of eight ethnic groups speaking 135 different dialects. The Mon, making up just two percent of Myanmar’s estimated 55 million people, are one of the...
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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Buddhist Nationalist Candidate Wins Sri Lanka...
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Buddhist Nationalist Gotabaya Rajapaksa Wins Sri Lanka...
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Practicing at the Office
Right Livelihood is the fifth practice on the noble eightfold path. But the reality is that the Buddha never held down a nine-to-five job, having traded a sumptuous lifestyle for one of even-handed...
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Buddha Buzz Weekly: Mass Animal Sacrifice in Nepal
Nothing is permanent, so everything is precious. Here’s a selection of some happenings—fleeting or otherwise—in the Buddhist world this week. Largest Animal Sacrifice in the World Happens Despite Ban...
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