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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 9h
Join Japanese American artist Miya Ando in person on October 22 for an evening exploring “Rain Drawings,” her new exhibit at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York City. Learn more and RSVP at the link below. tricycle.org/events/miya-...
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Miya Ando’s Rain Drawings: A Night at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Join us in person to view and hear about multidisciplinary artist Miya Ando’s new collection, visual interpretations inspired by her dictionary of Japanese words for rain.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 11h
What does it mean to “cut through the ego?” In our latest Dharma Talk, Sunisa Manning explains using the Tibetan practice of chöd. Watch this new video teaching now at the link below! tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 14h
What does "the unsurpassed life" mean? It means that an incredible gift, vast beyond comprehension, has been given to you. This gift is life. With Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, "It’s Beyond Me: Freedom from Managing Your Life" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 16h
"Zen’s aspiration is experiential, not academic. You don’t have to prove the existence of a god before you commit yourself to living a good life. Otherwise, you may never get started." –Geoff Dawson #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/mora...
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Moral Philosophy and Zen
An Australian Zen Buddhist teacher on the distinction between virtue ethics and utilitarianism in developing values
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thich Nhat Hanh is well-known for his peace activism, teachings on interbeing, and the social movement of engaged Buddhism. No less significant, however, is his prowess as a writer and literary figure. tricycle.org/events/conti...
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Virtual Event: Celebrate Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th Continuation Day
In honor of Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th continuation day, learn more about the late Vietnamese Zen master’s literary legacy.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“If all claims about reality are ultimately empty, what becomes of truth, knowledge, and ethics?” Mark Siderits responds to Candrakirti’s central question. tricycle.org/magazine/jay...
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Dismalism and the Moon
Mark Siderits reviews Jay Garfield and Sonam Thakchöe's book on Candrakirti and his radical emptiness doctrine.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Seeing things as they really are entails becoming more attuned to other human beings—their sufferings, needs, and aspirations. It lies in a shift toward greater empathy and understanding of the subjective realities of those around us." –Nagapriya #DailyDharma tricycle.org/magazine/nag...
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Imagining Reality
What it means to "see things as they are"
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy 93rd birthday to renowned painter and calligrapher Kazuaki Tanahashi! Enjoy this piece from the Tricycle archive published for his 90th birthday. tricycle.org/article/kazu...
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‘Each Moment Is a Miracle’
Acclaimed calligrapher and translator Kazuaki Tanahashi recently turned 90. He’s not slowing down.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“A view is valuable not because it’s philosophically persuasive but because it helps reduce craving, confusion, and attachment. It moves us toward greater clarity, freedom, and peace.” –Nagapriya tricycle.org/magazine/nag...
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Valuable Views
A brief teaching from Nagapriya on valuing different worldviews
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Loving the world as our own body means that the culmination of the spiritual path is not to achieve some blissed-out state but to become fully engaged, with each other and with the earth." –David Loy tricycle.org/article/touc...
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Touching the Earth
A Zen teacher revisits the story of the Buddha’s awakening and what it can teach us about our interconnectedness with the Earth.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sharon Salzberg offers a teaching on the nuanced difference between compassion and its near enemy—overwhelm or burnout. From "The Boundless Heart," a Tricycle online course with Sharon Salzberg learn.tricycle.org/p/the-boundl...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What if instead of minimizing our carbon footprint, we worked on maximizing our impact to fight climate change by working together? tricycle.org/events/carbo...
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From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: An Event with Leah Stokes
Join us on October 7 for a free virtual event on rethinking our approach to the climate with professor Leah Stokes.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Compassion is not a quality that can be demonstrated empirically. It is not a thing. It is something that we use flexibly. It speaks to a quality that we keep very close to us: the urgency of kindness." –Curtis White #DailyDharma tricycle.org/magazine/sci...
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The Science Delusion
An interview with cultural critic Curtis White
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How can we unite breath and body? Will Johnson shares a practice for experiencing the rising and falling of the breath through the whole body. tricycle.org/magazine/bre...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Influential Japanese Buddhist philosopher Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki played a pivotal role in spreading Zen philosophy. Our Film Club pick for October offers a close look at his life through the reflections of those who knew him. tricycle.org/filmclub/zen...
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https://tricycle.org/filmclub/zen-life-suzuki
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"When we make mindful, loving, and peaceful steps, we do it not just for our own healing and nourishment but for Mother Earth, for our parents, our ancestors, and all beings." –Sister Tue Nghiem #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/sist...
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Restoring Myself, Touching the Earth
Ten years after her mother’s death, a Plum Village monastic turns to nature to hold and transform her grief.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Won Buddhist teacher Venerable Sangsan said, "Go inwards and realize the buddha in your mind, practice the Threefold Practice diligently, realize that all things in the universe are all Buddhas, and make that Buddha offering." Wisdom relayed by Grace Song tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The real question is not only what our actions will bring us later. It is what our actions are turning the mind into now." –Cem Sen #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/cem-...
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What Should Ten Years of Buddhist Practice Make Possible?
How the object of our practice can become its own obstacle and the tangible fruits of the brahmaviharas
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Theravada Buddhism, there are many buddhas across vast spans of time, but only one arises in each world era. Beings who attain awakening through a buddha’s teachings are known as arahants or “worthy ones.” Click the free link below to learn more! tricycle.org/buddhism-the...
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Theravada
Theravada, meaning "the way of the elders," is one of the three major schools of Buddhism and one of the oldest surviving Buddhist traditions, tracing its
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a new podcast episode, Nirosta Steel talks Buddhist pop, Allen Ginsberg, and how Buddhism literally saved his life. tricycle.org/podcast/niro...
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Nirosta Steel on Buddhist Pop and the Making of ‘MY SKYSCRAPER’
The 69-year-old pop star talks Arthur Russell, Allen Ginsberg, and how Buddhism literally saved his life.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Atammayata" means abstaining from creating more formations in the mind, and embracing the world as it is. This concept promotes a form of happiness that arises from simply allowing. With Jay Michaelson, "Making the Shadow Your Teacher" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"You’re already stranded on the desert island, with nothing but old airplane food to subsist on, and no option but to make the best of life with your fellow survivors. Now... what might be some good things to do with your time?" –Oliver Burkeman #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/libe...
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It’s Worse than You Think
On the liberation of defeat
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What if instead of jumping right to fatalism, we recognized that we already have the technology and the science to help our planet? Join professor and Buddhist practitioner Leah Stokes on October 7 to learn about how we can actually make a difference. tricycle.org/events/carbo...
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From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: An Event with Leah Stokes
Join us on October 7 for a free virtual event on rethinking our approach to the climate with professor Leah Stokes.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"All that side of life that you call unconscious, unknown, impenetrable is unconscious, unknown, impenetrable because it’s really you. In other words, the deepest you is the nothing side, the side that you don’t know." –Alan Watts #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/alan...
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Emptiness and Nothingness
On the generative power of negativity
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this world we live in ten thousand scarecrows on guard and only one bird –Gregory Tullock tricycle.org/magazine/tri...
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Scarecrows on Every Side
The winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge offers a chilling portrait of the world we live in now.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The late multihyphenate musical artist Duncan Sheik died at 56 of heart failure on September 17. He was a practicing Nichiren Buddhist for nearly forty years. Read more about Sheik's life and legacy in the piece below. tricycle.org/article/dunc...
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The Buddhist Faith of Duncan Sheik
How a dedicated relationship with Soka Gakkai International shaped the life of the late composer—and fueled the creation of Spring Awakening
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Buddhist teachings on emptiness may seem complex or scary. Yet to Zen Buddhist priest Norman Fischer, these teachings are friendly and as light as air. With Norman Fischer, "When You Greet Me I Bow: Relationship, Emptiness, Activism" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"When difficulties occur, recollect dharma. Think of what your spiritual guides have taught you. They teach you to let go, to have restraint and self-control, to put things down; they teach you to strive in this way to solve your problems." –Ajahn Chah #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/the-...
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Practice Like the Four Elements
A venerated teacher from the Thai forest tradition on using the elements to train our minds away from its habitual responses.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“A dharma instrument and a great sound system can give you the same kind of feeling.” –Howie Lee tricycle.org/article/howi...
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At the Drolma Wesel​-​Ling Monastery
Beijing-based electronic musician Howie Lee recorded his latest album at a remote monastery in the mountains of northeastern Tibet. In the years that followed, his artistic philosophy would take a…
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Check out what we’re plugged into! In the latest issue, we highlight two dharma talks, a lecture, and a guided meditation to enhance your Buddhist practice. tricycle.org/magazine/wha...
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What We’re Plugged Into
Two dharma talks, a lecture, and a guided meditation to enhance your Buddhist practice
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Being human is an experiment and always has been. The Buddha’s teachings show us how we might live that experiment in the clearest and most compassionate way." –Santacitta Bhikkhuni #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/slow...
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Slow Down, Take Your Seat
A meditation practice for relaxing into your experience and being with things as they are
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sutra reading goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but it has fallen out of fashion. Learn how to read the Diamond Sutra aloud in the piece below. tricycle.org/magazine/ken...
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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.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On September 29, join three Buddhist teachers and scholars for a conversation exploring emptiness through Zen, Tibetan, and Theravada perspectives. Sign up now using the link below! tricycle.org/events/empti...
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https://tricycle.org/events/emptiness-buddhism-three-takes/
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Connect with your bodhicitta, the intention to help all beings, and find the courage to live the bodhisattva’s path in a 28-day meditation program with Mingyur Rinpoche. Click the link below to learn more. tricycle.org/events/bodhi...
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The Bodhisattva’s Path of Meditation Program
Join a 28-day meditation program with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to learn about the path of the bodhisattva and cultivating compassion for all.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We call it meditation 'practice' for a reason—we aren't striving to be extraordinary meditators. We are practicing to bring about peace and compassion in our lives and the world at large. With Willa Blythe Baker, "The Art of Somatic Mindfulness" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"It’s much easier to move toward the comfort of a conclusion than to sustain uncertainty. But there’s something worth pursuing in refusing conclusion." –Katie Kitamura #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/on-u...
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On Uncertainty, Midlife, and the Beauty of Boredom
Ann Tashi Slater talks with author Katie Kitamura about detaching from productivity, Proust, and the often-overlooked importance of staring out the window.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Turning toward grief requires trust—trust that eventually you will emerge on the other side, where life after loss will become the new normal and the emotions of grief will settle down. Just as there is no road map for grief, there is no timeline." –Roy Remer tricycle.org/magazine/min...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"How strange. The intoxicants I had mistaken for happiness were revealed as the source of my suffering, while abstinence, once feared as suffering, became the source of true happiness." –Peter Kuhn Click the link below to read the free piece. tricycle.org/article/pete...
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https://tricycle.org/article/peter-kuhn-zen-recovery/
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We must learn the difference between the ease of getting our way and the ease that comes with wisdom." –Tuere Sala #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/stop...
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Stop Fixing, Start Practicing
Problem-solving can take us far, but sincere practice takes us the extra mile.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From tranquility springs wisdom, and from wisdom arises a transformative understanding that fosters inner freedom. Wisdom from Narayan Helen Liebenson, "The Principles and Practices of Shamatha Vipassana" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join us on Tuesday, October 13 for Thich Nhat Hanh’s 100th continuation day. Scholar Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, who is currently writing his biography, will tell us about the Zen master’s literary legacy. Sign up for free at the link below. tricycle.org/events/conti...
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Virtual Event: Celebrate Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th Continuation Day
In honor of Thich Nhat Hanh's 100th continuation day, learn more about the late Vietnamese Zen master’s literary legacy.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"We don’t exist substantially or intrinsically or independently, but our existence, like the existence of everything else, is interdependent, conventional, constantly changing." –Jay L. Garfield #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/live...
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How to Live Without a Self (and Be a Better Person)
Brief teachings on how to shed the illusion of self and reclaim our humanity
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After the Buddha’s death in the 5th century BCE, the sangha held councils to preserve his teachings. But disagreements over monastic discipline eventually led to the formation of multiple Buddhist traditions. Learn more for free at the link below! tricycle.org/buddhism-the...
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Theravada
Theravada, meaning "the way of the elders," is one of the three major schools of Buddhism and one of the oldest surviving Buddhist traditions, tracing its
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Local ritual customs help shape a community’s identity and instill a sense of belonging. Even brief gestures can reorient the practitioner to the sacred and help settle the body and mind." –Zim Pickens and @fmr-h.bsky.social #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/budd...
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From the Academy: Ritual
Innovation and tradition in Buddhist ritual
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the “Land of a Thousand Islands” there are 1,750 Buddhists and 7 Tricycle subscribers. Learn more in the piece below! tricycle.org/magazine/bud...
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Buddhism By the Numbers: Croatia
Buddhist statistics from the "Land of a Thousand Islands"
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The late bell hooks said that "the most basic form of activism that we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasy." Wisdom relayed by Devin Berry, "Metta and Karuna: Two Heart Practices to Cultivate in Meditation and Daily Life" tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In a new 28-day meditation program for Tricycle subscribers, Mingyur Rinpoche draws on Shantideva’s classic text, “The Way of the Bodhisattva,” to help us connect with our own true enlightened nature and develop a genuine intention to relieve suffering for all. tricycle.org/events/bodhi...
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The Bodhisattva’s Path of Meditation Program
Join a 28-day meditation program with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to learn about the path of the bodhisattva and cultivating compassion for all.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Having a clear understanding of how our mind works is the foundation to understanding reality, and understanding reality is the key to mental well-being and health." –Karuna Cayton #DailyDharma tricycle.org/article/the-...
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The Myth of Reality
A psychologist on how understanding the nature of reality is the foundation of Buddhism
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Real change can come from real people, and we’re stronger together, says activist and professor Leah Stokes. Join us on October 7 to hear how this author’s Buddhist practice inform her empowering framework for protecting our planet. Sign up for free at the link below. tricycle.org/events/carbo...
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From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: An Event with Leah Stokes
Join us on October 7 for a free virtual event on rethinking our approach to the climate with professor Leah Stokes.
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review @tricyclemag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Zagreb, Croatia’s capital, remains a deeply Catholic society where Buddhism persists as a tiny minority. Buddhist ideas and images first reached the region via medieval Christian legends and reports of Jesuits, but organized practice took root only in the 1970s. tricycle.org/magazine/bud...
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The Buddhist Traveler in Zagreb
Croatia's capital city is rich in museums, gardens, and meditation centers.
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