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Tricycle/Winter 2003
Volume 13, Number 2In This Issue
dharma talk
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Improve your mind through the force of merit.
on practice
interview
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An interview with Andrew Olendzki
feature
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Has this oft-maligned Buddhist organization—the largest in America—figured out something that others haven't? Contributing editor Clark Strand has a few challenging answers.
profile
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An interview with former renegade biker James Veliskakis
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Septuagenarian Buddhist cabaret performer Jack Poggi tap-dances his way to a new lease on life and a new take on death
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An eco-warrior finds the dharma, opens his heart, and goes hunting.
issues
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Buddhism runs afoul of the Church/State debate.
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on location
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The dharma emerges from under the Soviet shadow.
practical pilgrim
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A visit to six dharma centers in New York's Catskill Mountains
general
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The Himalayan Art Project to the rescue
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A legal proofreader brings his practice to work.
on the cushion
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A reader from Boise, Idaho wries: "How do I develop a disciplined sitting practice?"
in the news
reviews
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Expatriates who sat out the Sixties
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A six-year-old test-drives children's books on the dharma.
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The latest in Buddhist fiction
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Seven centuries of poetry under the same night sky
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Q&A with Sarah Harding, and an excerpt from her new book on Pema Lingpa
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The end of the quest
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Illustrated books for the gift season
contributors
editors view
insights
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Revered Sri Lankan monk Bhante Gunaratana (affectionately known as “Bhante G.”) offers wisdom on anger in his recent autobiography, Journey to Mindfulness.
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Aaron Naparstek teaches a novel way to defuse anger in his new book, Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage.
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In 1977 two American monks set out on foot from Los Angeles on an 800-mile pilgrimage to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a religious and educational center in Mendocino County, California. The pilgrims, Heng Sure and Heng Ch’au, reached their destination two-and-a-half years later. Along the way, the two wrote letters to the center’s founder and their teacher, the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. Below is a letter from Heng Sure in the early days of the journey.
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Longtime Zen practitioner, haiku poet, and secretary of the U.K. Network of Engaged Buddhists, Ken Jones offers wisdom on aging and death. The following is an excerpt from a pamphlet—Ageing: The Great Adventure—that grew out of a series of workshops Jones conducted.
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Osamu Tezuka, the "godfather of Japanese comics," has created an expansive eight-volume graphic novel of the Buddha's life, to be published over the course of the next year. The following scenes, from volume two, depict a quieter moment in an otherwise action-packed rendition of the life of the Buddha. Here, Siddhartha enters monkhood.
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A Q&A with Krishnamurti
on gardening
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Organic gardeners take on corporate crops.
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