Tricycle/Fall 1999

Volume 9, Number 1

In This Issue

feature

  • PEMA CHÖDRÖN, dharma teacher and author of When Things Fall Apart, speaks about roles and responsibilities within the teacher/student relationship.
  • As America is consumed by the manufacture of desire, can Buddhism hold its ground? PETER TRACHTENBERG investigates.
  • ROBERT BEER, artist and illustrator, speaks on how his immersion in Tibetan art became his own transformative path.
  • Brian Victoria uncovers the wartime anti-Semitism of one of America’s most seminal Zen masters. Responses to this material from: Robert Aitken, Bernie Glassman, Bodhin Kjolhede, and Lawrence Shainberg
  • Having been asked to cook for a Tibetan retreat, KIMBERLEY SNOW is served dharma dishes she never imagined.

editors view

general

on gardening

columns

reviews

  • DAVID STANFORD looks at the poetry and life of the 1950s avant-garde Buddhist d. a. levy; MICHAEL SWEET reviews two books on sexuality and Buddhism; JEFFREY ZALESKI on Circling the Sacred Mountain, a travel account by ROBERT THURMAN and TAD WISE; DONALD S. LOPEZ, JR., considers JORGE LUIS BORGES’s interest in Buddhism. Plus Books in Brief, and Mixed Media including PETER MATTHIESSEN’s audio tape on Zen and the Writing LifeThe Buddhist Third Class Junkmail OracleThe Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to SexualityCircling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure through the HimalayasZen and the Writing LifeZen and the Writing LifeMusic Review

on practice