An exercise in the Buddhist concept of lovingkindess

Buddhist nationalists arrested over deadly anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, a look at Ladakh’s ice stupas, and the Zen Center of Los Angeles gets a new abbot. Tricycle looks back at the events of this…

Of course the monastery couldn’t be the romantic place I’d imagined, but I had to go there to find that out and, in the finding, to realize that simple alternatives to worldliness were likely to be as…

Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment, writes the late Soto Zen teacher Zenkei Blanche Hartman Roshi.

How just 5 minutes of feeling fortunate and rejoicing in other people's actions can bring us happiness

The prominent Tibetan Buddhist monk has been suspended from teaching over abuse allegations, and now senior nuns are calling for an independent probe into his behavior.

The American Religious Sounds Project is an ambitious new database that keeps an ear out for religion in everyday life.

An exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art reveals the inner workings of power, politics, and Tibetan Buddhism in premodern Asia.

Children can remind us of how bright and mysterious our lives can be, but should we strive to emulate their minds?

The Buddha’s mindfulness has one purpose—the end of suffering. Do secular programs do the same thing?

Revisiting how we view enlightenment—and how we view teachers—may help us navigate issues of sexual abuse.

We come to terms with our painful past by extending forgiveness to ourselves

Our new digital world has made it impossible to believe in infallible teachers. What comes next is up to us.

A letter from Tricycle’s editor, James Shaheen

How to let go of the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad habits that dictate your day

Explore Larlo's photos on Flickr. Larlo has uploaded 1161 photos to Flickr.

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists are released from prison in Myanmar, Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn declares himself the Royal Patron of Buddhism, Tibetan lama Dagri Rinpoche faces #MeToo, and…

With the birth of her son, Anne Cushman began negotiating the dance between practice and parenting. She asks, "Are mothers changing the forms of Buddhism in America?"

In our messy and entangled world, it is impossible to separate what we do for a living from the larger system that makes living possible.

A meditation teacher reimagines the birth of Siddhartha Gautama from Queen Maya’s perspective.

Holy (un)Holy River explores the sacred Ganges river, India's spiritual and ecological lifesource, as it suffers from pollution on a large scale.

How to recognize and overcome three universal obstacles to practice

If we so crave Western Buddhism, we might end up with a Buddhism that is merely a mirror image of ourselves and our present culture, a hybrid of superannuated Protestantism and narcissism marketed by…