Spring 2005

Soyen Shaku's classic sermon on the finding balance between discipline and intuition

Do we respond to physical pain in the wisest way? Fleeing it, we get caught in it. A Thai meditation master has another answer: Get to know suffering to be free of it.

From the medicine cabinet to the mediation cushion, Anne Cushman organizes her home and gains insight into her mind.

Zen priest and poet Norman Fischer explores the spirituality of art.

Searching for meaning at home and abroad, Stephen Schettini realizes that the truth lies within.

A case study in how mindfulness practice can aid medical treatment

For nearly a millennium and a half, Buddhism and the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta have shared terminology and ideas, argued about philosophical fine points, and pointed to nondual experience. In recent decades, Advaita has had a powerful influence on many Western Buddhist teachers and practitioners as well.

The tradition of Himalayan tantric art evolved over more than a thousand years into a form notable for its iconographic complexity and stunning beauty. In December, Tricycle visited New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art, home of one of the West’s richest collections of Himalayan art. In this interview RMA curator Jeff Watt pulls back the curtain on this potent Buddhist art form.

Contemporary thangka painter Robert Beer discusses the evolution, decline, and recent revival of a sacred art.

From ballerina to chaplain

The adventures of Prince Siddartha; Jazz legend Wanye Shorter's Buddhist thing; conversations with Ryokan; Give & Take with Wes Nisker; Buddha Buzz

Sean Murphy remembers America's first Korean Zen Master.

It's a great time to visit France.

In this oft-quoted sutta, the Buddha speaks to the deva Rohitassa, who has run day and night, in vain, to reach the end of the world. Pali scholar Andrew Olendzki explains.

Where is the real Kapilavastu? Two towns claim to be the site of the Buddha's ancestral home.

Wendy Johnson tateses kindess in a pomgranate.

Zen finds a foothold in Costa Rica.

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