Summer 2005

Tishani Doshi reports on the tsunami’s impact on one small town in Sri Lanka

Lessons from My Unborn child by Juliet Eastland

Allan Hunt Badiner visits the center of the Buddha’s world.

Wendy Johnson takes a closer look at what gets left behind.

A survey of the second annual International Buddhist Film Festival by Andrew Goodwin

A brief chat with lama Khyentse Norbu Rinpoche

The straw man's case against religion

Not your conventional biography

An unabashed allegory

Searching for answers

What it really looked like

A Tibetan lama invites us to the theater of emptiness; Finding freedom from fear; Alexandra David-Neel’s encounter with a leaping lama; Sharon Salzberg on Aung San Suu Kyi’s sixtieth birthday; Give & Take with Rafi Zabor; Buddha BuzzGive and Take: What does not being a Buddhist mean to you? Buddha Buzz

Noelle Oxenhandler concocts an antidote to fundamentalismNoelle Oxenhandler concocts an antidote to fundamentalism

Renowned scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels explains how historical study can rescue religion from dogma in an interfaith dialog with Tricycle's Andrew Cooper

Basic Buddhist meditation practices can transform the way you think and the way you view the world. On June 4, Tricycle will sponsor the twelfth annual Change Your Mind Day, an afternoon of free meditation instruction in parks throughout the world. In celebration, five teachers offer introductory methods for changing your mind - and your life.

A Portfolio by Matthieu Ricard

Trinlay Tulku Rinpoche was born in France to an American mother and French father. Recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of two, he was raised by some of the last century’s greatest Tibetan masters. What can he teach us about ourselves?