Summer 2005
Vol. 14, No. 4
on location
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Tishani Doshi reports on the tsunami’s impact on one small town in Sri Lanka
my view
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Lessons from My Unborn Child
practical pilgrim
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Allan Hunt Badiner visits the center of the Buddha’s world.
editors view
contributors
on gardening
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Wendy Johnson takes a closer look at what gets left behind.
reviews
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A survey of the second annual International Buddhist Film Festival
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A brief chat with lama Khyentse Norbu Rinpoche
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The straw man's case against religion
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Not your conventional biography
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An unabashed allegory
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Searching for answers
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What it really looked like
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parting words
insights
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Strange but true tales from the modern Buddhist world
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A Tibetan lama invites us to the theater of emptiness
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In the face of vanishing freedom, Joel Agee finds inspiration in the story of Siddhartha Gautama.
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Alexandra David-Neel (1868—1969), the first European to penetrate the Tibetan plateau and investigate its mysterious religion, records her encounter with a lung-gom-pa, a monk capable of traveling great distances on foot at a supernormal speed.
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Sharon Salzberg on Aung San Suu Kyi’s sixtieth birthday
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Tricycle’s Andrew Cooper chats with Rafi Zabor, the author of "The Bear Comes Home", which received the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 as the year’s best American work of fiction. His book “I, Wabenzi” is due out in the fall of 2005.
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letters
thus have i heard
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Unraveling the Buddha’s teachings on how we construct ourselves
dharma talk
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A late Thai master's final advice on walking the path to enlightenment
essay
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Noelle Oxenhandler concocts an antidote to fundamentalism
interview
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Renowned scholar of Christianity Elaine Pagels explains how historical study can rescue religion from dogma in an interfaith dialog with Tricycle's Andrew Cooper
on practice
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Basic Buddhist meditation practices can transform the way you think and the way you view the world. Here, five teachers offer introductory methods for changing your mind—and your life.
portfolio
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A Portfolio by Matthieu Ricard
feature
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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?
special section
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Seven Meditations for Connecting with Nature
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The wildness at the edge of awareness
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Cushman's introduction to Summer 2005's special section: Green Dharma
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A conversation on Buddhism, corporate power, confrontational tactics, and the future of the world with Rainforest Action Network chairman Jim Gollin
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and other Buddhist practices to save the planet
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Katy Butler finds her spiritual ground
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Interconnectedness is not all fuzzy and warm. In a free-ranging discussion with Clark Strand, pioneering Buddhist Michael Soulé discusses the pitfalls and saving graces of its shadow side.
