A transgender Zen student reflects on his Buddhist journey. The post On Transitioning appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

How meditation can strengthen our innate capacities for compassion and wisdom The post Tapping into Our Basic Goodness appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The life and legacy of the Chinese Buddhist monk Taixu The post Buddhism for This World appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

How a highly auspicious plant became an object of envy in rural Nepal The post The Two Truths of Bodhichitta appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

A Dzogchen-inspired teaching on freeing the mind from ideas of meditative achievement The post Meditation Is Not Required appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Plato’s allegory of the cave as a metaphor for seeking nirvana The post The Nature of Concepts appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Ann Tashi Slater talks with veteran CNN journalist Anderson Cooper about the precariousness of life and the questions he still wrestles with today. The post Turning Toward Grief and Learning to Feel Again appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist...

Tips for the beginner meditator from a Tibetan Buddhist monk The post Entering Shamatha Meditation appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

A writer invokes the Hindu sage Vyāsa in a meditation on old age. The post The End of Time appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Exploring the sacred ritual dances of Vajrayana Buddhism The post Embodying Enlightenment appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The life and controversial teachings of Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen The post The Philosophy of Other-Emptiness appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Should convert Buddhists in the West reclaim these ancestral elements? The post Animistic and Shamanic Elements of Asian Buddhism appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Katherine May about the gift of “winter” periods and the transformative power of attention. The post Leaning into Change and Trusting the World appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The evolving stories of pretas reveal much about Buddhist views of karma, cosmology, and grief. The post Who Were the Hungry Ghosts, Really? appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Understanding and responding to the latest college-student abduction by ICE The post Mohsen Mahdawi, the Buddhist appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

A Buddhist reality check The post The List appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

How we can practice renunciation in our everyday lives The post Letting Go and Letting Be appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The Dalai Lama’s new book offers a searing political account of Tibet’s fate—and a vision of compassion-based resistance. The post ‘Voice for the Voiceless’ appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Tibetan Buddhist lama and scholar Khenpo Sodargye on the type of faith that makes practice transcendent The post Four Kinds of Faith appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Artist Joseph Ramirez and Buddhist teacher Justin von Bujdoss discuss dark meditation and Ramirez’s work, The Gold Projections, with Tricycle’s Philip Ryan. The post Breathing Light appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Actor and narrator of audiobooks Edoardo Ballerini speaks with Tricycle’s Philip Ryan. The post On Meditation and Voice Acting appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr. examines the history of Buddhism’s survival—and the predictions surrounding its eventual decline. The post The Rise and Fall of the Dharma appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

The enduring Buryat Buddhist tradition The post Faith in the Heartland of Baikal appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

On differentiating between Zen koans, Chan gongans, and Dzogchen pith instructions The post Wisdom Beyond Reason appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Bianca Bosker about how art helps us live more expansively and brings us closer together. The post Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

A breathing practice for journeying into deeper states of self The post Hollow Bamboo Breathing first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post Hollow Bamboo Breathing appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

In tribute to the curiosity of Alan Senauke (1947–2024) The post Peace Becomes Possible: An Interview with Thích Nhất Hạnh first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post Peace Becomes Possible: An Interview with Thích Nhất Hạnh appeared...

Reflecting on thirty years of Vajrayana practice, Justin von Bujdoss explores identity, struggle, and the essence of dharma. The post Distilling the Essence first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post Distilling the Essence appeared first on Tricycle:...

In an excerpt from her memoir, author and academic Jan Willis recounts an auspicious meeting with the Dalai Lama in the 1970s. The post Flesh-and-Bones Buddha first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post Flesh-and-Bones Buddha appeared first...

The Nyingma master Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche transmitted teachings to all manner of sentient beings—even goats. The post The Lama and the Goat first appeared on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. The post The Lama and the Goat appeared first on...