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Letters to the Editor
Our readers respond to Tricycle’s print and online offerings.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Letter from the Editor
No Regrets
A letter from Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
CultureMagazine | Featured Contributors
Featured Contributors
Featured contributors for the Fall 2026 issue of Tricycle include Sun Bai, Josh Korda, and Pelumi Sholagbade.
Openings
The High Line Buddha
In New York City, a recent large-scale art installation by Tuan Andrew Nguyen pays homage to monuments of yore.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Podcasts
Breaking the Trance
An excerpt of a conversation between Tara Brach and Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen
What We’re Reading
The latest in Buddhist publishing
CultureMagazine | Audio Dharma
What We’re Plugged Into
Two dharma talks, a lecture, and a guided meditation to enhance your Buddhist practice
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Podcasts
Visiting Teacher: Peggy Rowe Ward
Q&A with Peggy Rowe Ward, author and senior dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition
CultureMagazine | The Buddhist Traveler In
The Buddhist Traveler in Zagreb
Croatia's capital city is rich in museums, gardens, and meditation centers.
Scarecrows on Every Side
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge offers a chilling portrait of the world we live in now.
CultureMagazine | By the Numbers
Buddhism By the Numbers: Croatia
Buddhist statistics from the "Land of a Thousand Islands"
CultureMagazine | Sacred Sites
Buddha Park
A Laotian “spirit city” with more than 200 residents
Teachings
What’s the Point?
On the anxiety of meaning and the dharma of giving up on it
Stop, Don’t Strive
A brief teaching from Cuong Lu on doing nothing
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Turning Our Thoughts to the Dharma
In Vajrayana Buddhism, the preliminaries train our minds so we can begin to practice.
TeachingsMagazine | The Five Skandhas
The Five Skandhas: Fabrications
Printable aids for the pillars of Buddhist practice
TeachingsMagazine | Meet a Teacher
Meet a Teacher: Sunisa Manning
Heart Sangha’s founder offers bites of dharma for day-to-day snacking.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
The Karma of Not-Self
An American Theravada monk on how to respond to the question, “If there’s no self, who does the karma, and who receives the results of the karma?”
Transforming Obstacles
A brief teaching from Samuel Bercholz on accepting obstacles in our way
Notes on Reading Sutras Aloud
In a new translation of the Diamond Sutra, Ken McLeod encourages us to do what has been done for over a thousand years—read the sutra as practice.
Valuable Views
A brief teaching from Nagapriya on valuing different worldviews
Features
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
In Search of Zero
Actor and martial artist Jet Li on his first Zen retreat
Writing Into the Void
The novelist and Zen priest Ruth Ozeki discusses her first collection of short stories.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
The Burning House
An elegy for Tassajara’s zendo
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
My Good Luck African Braiding Sangha
The dharma of caring for Black hair
Complicating the Contemporary
Nomin Bold's paintings explore the competing interests of modernity and tradition in Mongolia.
Heavy Dharma
Waking up with metal music
Where Are All The Buddhist Schools?
Buddhism in the US has millions of practitioners but has yet to establish a grade school system.
The Monk Who Walked Away
The scholar Robert Buswell on Jinul, the 12th-century Korean monk who rejected wealth and prestige and shaped a tradition
Reviews
Magazine | Book Reviews, Reviews
Out of Tibet’s Shadow
A new study reveals Mongolian Buddhism as a tradition of intellectual and artistic originality.
Magazine | Book Reviews, Reviews
Don’t Look Away
As meditation goes mainstream, a new sourcebook makes the case for taking its dangers as seriously as its benefits.
Magazine | Book Reviews, Reviews
Dismalism and the Moon
Is Candrakirti’s radical emptiness doctrine compatible with knowledge and ethics?
CultureMagazine | Book Reviews, Reviews
Spreading Light and Shifting Karma
How Vietnamese Buddhist volunteers turn everyday acts of giving into expressions of spiritual and political hope
Parting Words
Passing Below the Traverse Mountain Shrine-Tower in Autumn
A poem by Yang Wan-li