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    Zen and the Art: How do you balance your practice and your art? Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 29 Mar 2012
    This blog post comes our way from Henry Shukman, a prize-winning poet and novelist. His most recent novel, The Lost City, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. He is also an authorized Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan Zen lineage, and he teaches at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the current issue of Tricycle, Shukman wrote a feature article on the "Zen and the Art" phenomenon. More »
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    Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 10 Feb 2012
    Starting today, Asia Society Hong Kong Center's inaugural exhibition celebrates the beauty and diversity of Buddhism. The exhibition showcases important art pieces from Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection as well as contemporary creations by Asian artists. Related cultural events include a public forum, lecture series, and Hong Kong's first International Buddhist Film Festival. The exhibition runs from Feb 10 to May 20, 2012.Read more at The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation site. More »
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Blogologues Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 29 Sep 2011
    On Monday I sauntered off to see "Blogologues: Are You There God? It's Me, Blogologues," a show aiming to bring the blogosphere to life by dramatically (and I mean dramatically) enacting blog posts, Tweets, Texts From Last Night, and other "wacky" Internet material. Co-conceived and compiled by Yale alums Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, the Blogologues series puts on a performance every month, with a new theme and new material each time. The theme last Monday was one of Tricycle's favorites: religion. And Jamula and Goldberg upped their Tricycle street cred by representing someone from the Buddhoblogosphere—none other than the be-squirrelled Buddhist himself, Kyle Lovett of the Reformed Buddhist (which is now a Men's Rights blog, not a Buddhist blog, for the record). More »
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    About a poem: "Ochre and Blue" by Chase Twichell Paid Member

    Posted by Sam Mowe on 15 Sep 2011
    The Fall 2011 issue of Tricycle features a poem by Chase Twichell, "Ochre and Blue." Beneath the poem is commentary from Twichell on how the poem came to be. Beneath the commentary is a button, push it and listen to Twichell read her poem.Ochre and BlueWaking to ochre birch leavessinking in the blue undersea of dawn,I swim in the same currents,needing nothing.Later I'll forget this,and mourn the end of autumn.What's left to be saidabout being human?About “Ochre and Blue” More »
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    The Taliban's Least Favorite Buddhist Art, Now on View in New York Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 07 Sep 2011
    Jed Perl at the New Republic, on the Asia Society's ongoing exhibition, The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara, More »
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    Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 25 Aug 2011
    "Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky" by Gonkar Gyatso, from the new Tricycle Gallery of Contemporary Himalayan Art. All works of art in the Tricycle Gallery are freely available for print, to send to friends as e-cards, and to download for use as wallpaper on a computer, e-reader, or mobile device.     More »