The New Kadampa Tradition is an international association of Mahayana Buddhist meditation centers that follow the Kadampa Buddhist tradition founded by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Tricycle/Fall 2003
Volume 13, Number 1In This Issue
ancestors
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Author Aldous Huxley played an early and instrumental role in popularizing buddhism in the west. but what was his view of buddhism? and what does it offer buddhists today? Dana Sawyer reports.
on practice
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Travel the river of the mind to the vast ocean
dharma talk
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Should we take the Buddha at his word? Larry Rosenberg encourages us to put the teachings to the test.
interview
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Stephen Batchelor interviews Don Cupitt
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Zen and Poetry
feature
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Anne Cushman bears witness to a sangha fractured by its teacher’s flaws.
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In a world of transience, is conservation just another form of attachment?
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A new mother struggles with self-sacrifice.
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The ancient Japanese mealtime art of oryoki reveals the patterns and sticking points of our minds.
insights
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How to wash and dress a Buddhist corpse
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Stirring a pot of chili, Prabu Vasan learns an unexpected lesson in what it means to feed the soul.
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Have you ever tried to catch a cloud?
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A poem by Andrew Schelling
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Barbara Gates learns to use a jackhammer to uncover the neglected realms of the self.
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Experiments to unlock the wonder of everyday life
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Jews for Jesus and the Buddhadharma
on location
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Monks and gangsters come together to receive the blessings of a spiritual prophylaxis: Buddhist tattoos.
on events
on the cushion
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A reader from Woodstock, New York, writes: “Is it possible to have a meaningful meditation practice in the absence of a living teacher?”
on gardening
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Dragonflies stitch together the visible and invisible realms
on food
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Get the body of a bhikkhu—or your alms back.
sangha spotlight
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"Come as you are” to the last frontier of American Buddhism.
practical pilgrim
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Walk in the Buddha’s footsteps in the ancient Indian city of Rajgir.
letters
contributors
editors view
special section
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Leaving her lover behind, Barbara Hurd finds refuge in the vastness of the Indian desert.
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Are grief and mourning the most precious proofs of love?
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Noelle Oxenhandler discovers that it's impossible to be truly seperated from anything she loves.
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When her unborn son is diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, Martha Beck learns that when we have everything to lose, we also have everything to gain.
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Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.
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reviews
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Two new titles for the couch and the cushion
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Gross National Suffering and the economics of awakening
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The next generation of American Buddhism steps up—and looks back.
Latest Comments in this Issue
Thank you for this wonderful piece "Practicing with Loss".
It was gentle, postive and helpful.
Thank you Gehlek Rimpoche. Since yesterday my friend is struggling with her dying cat to him she is very atached...
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These are excellent instructions. I can't thank you enough.