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/Summer 2002
Volume 11, Number 4In This Issue
interview
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Israeli activist and “human shield” Neta Golan practices the precept nonkilling in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, putting her beliefs—and her life—on the line for peace. -
Barbara Rhodes is the first female lineage holder in the Kwan Um school of Korean Zen.
feature
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Ani Tenzin Palmo teaches that doubt is an essential tool on the path to enlightenment.
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What is the compassionate thing to do? Trish Deitch Rohrer explores the Buddhist ethics of euthanizing pets.
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In which the King and the Duke don monkish robes, the Widow Douglas takes refuge, and Huck Finn learns about skillful drinking.
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A Harvard student’s academic mission takes an unexpectedly personal turn when she decides to ordain as a nun in Thailand.
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Sandra Garson writes on how the Buddha came into your kitchen.
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Thomas Moore explores the living—rather than doctrinal—tradition of his birth. At its heart he finds Zen.
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in memoriam
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Adelaide Donnelley reports on the life and death of Tibetan nun Ani Pachen Dolma, imprisoned for twenty-one years for resisting the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
on gardening
on parenting
on the cushion
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Q & A with Sylvia Boorstein
dharma talk
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What can we do when our monkey minds pull us off the cushion? Simple, says Sensei Pat Enkyo O'Hara: Just practice.
contributors
editors view
on practice
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Jeffrey Hopkins explains the Buddhist logic of embracing our enemies as our friends.
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Master Sheng-yen challenges us to accept adversity without resistance.
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The Dalai Lama on why the inner enemy is the most dangerous one.
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Tonglen—the Tibetan practice of "sending and receiving"—can be put to use in everyday situations.
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Thich Nhat Hanh shows that looking at the enemy with eyes of love is possible for all of us.
insights
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Doorways provide not simply passage between rooms, but an awareness of the thresholds within ourselves.
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As it turns out, emptiness can be understood perfectly while chewing rice.
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Along with the keys to his lingerie store, the author’s father offers him a piece of unexpected advice: “The business of business is to forget business.”
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In his struggle with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Philip Simmons learns that his physical illness is just a manifestation of a more universal human malady.
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Literature professor and wilderness activist John Elder ruminates on the Japanese game of Go as a metaphor for biological succession—and for the surprising patterns of his own life.
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Sometimes we miss the honey for the bees of the self.
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The more deeply scientists delve into scientific reality, the less substance they discover.
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reviews
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Joseph Goldstein speaks to Tricycle about his recent book, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism.
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