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    Moments in American Buddhism Paid Member

    By Jeff Wilson
    1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's work An American Dictionary of the English Language includes the term Buddhism. 1844 The first English translation of a Buddhist scripture, an excerpt from the Lotus Sutra, is published by Henry David Thoreau in The Dial, the Transcendentalist periodical founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1848 Gold is discovered in California, setting off a rush that within five years brings tens of thousands.of Chinese, most of them Pure Land Buddhists, to America. More »
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    Lex Hixon: "In The Spirit" Paid Member

    Lex Hixon affected many lives in different ways. In the course of his Own studies, he became an accomplished adept in (among othet traditions) Zen, Vedanta, Sufism, and Russian Orthodoxy. His house in the Rivetdale section of the Bronx often functioned as a haven for people who tepresented religion at the crossroads. A robed TIbetan high lama would be coming in one door as a disgruntled runaway from a Zen communiry would be entering through another, and Lex's magnanimiry extended equaBy to each. Of all the roles that Lex played, none surpasses in significance the poSt he held at WBAI, the public radio station in New York City where, from 1971 to 1984, he conducted a weekly radio show called "In the Spirit." He interviewed rabbis, sheiks, priests, ministers and representatives from an impressive range of religious traditions. More »
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    Beyond the End of the Road Paid Member

    By Benjamin Bogin
    In the last years of his life I visited Rick several times at the home he shared with his wife, Marcia, in Northern California. Often I would spend a week with them, tagging along to attend Buddhist teachings, eat lunches with friends, go to the hospital for chemo, or take long, slow walks through the redwoods—the day-to-day activities of an American Buddhist writer living with cancer. There was a sense of extraordinary openness in the way that he faced everything, from something as ordinary as eating breakfast to the most complicated aspects of life and death. To some extent I had always seen this openness, this simple but solid presence, in Rick; but in those final years when he was facing death so directly, it seemed to truly blossom. More »
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    Masatoshi Nagatomi Remembered Paid Member

    By Duncan Ryuken Williams
    "You bow like a Japanese," Masatoshi Nagatomi told me with his characteristic giggle. Thus began nine years of mentoring in Buddhist studies until his passing last year. He assured my worried Japanese mother that I would be safe in America and that he and his wife would look after me. His grandfatherly kindness extended co invitations for dinners at Thanksgiving, gifts of Japanese pickles, and the officiating of my Buddhist wedding. I am sure that during the course of his almost forry years at Harvard, every student of Mas Nagatomi similarly felt his bodhisattvic kindness and his dedication to nurturing his students not only in scholarly life, but also in life more broadly. More »
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    "Letter to the Wall Street Journal," 1966 Paid Member

    By Allen Ginsberg
    Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own tWice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug. Possessing more means being aware of more: & that "awareness" is banked in areas we call feeling. Bodily feeling sense or sensual feeling. More »
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    The Last Ten Years Paid Member

    By Helen Tworkov
    For ten years Tricycle has been borne on its path by countless people who helped start and sustain it with their wisdom, their immense talents. and their kindness and friendship. Along the way four contributors, each of whom played critical roles in completely different ways, have passed on. In this section, they are remembered separately; yet together, they provide a glimpse of our history. Rick Fields: 1942-1999 More »