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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Hozan Kushiki Alan Senauke, a socially engaged Buddhist, abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center (BZC), and an accomplished traditional bluegrass musician, died on December 22, 2024. According to BZC, he passed peacefully from complications stemming from a cardiac arrest he suffered in 2023. He was 77 years old.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
It wasn’t all that long ago that the COVID-19 pandemic shifted so many activities online that we used to think could be done only in person. Though a sad, difficult, and deadly time, the pandemic lockdowns were also a time of great virtual connection. We were using our screens to meet with friends, families, and sanghas, and to say our final goodbyes. Last summer, we had a death in our family and a great need for virtual support.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | James Shaheen |Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Haley Barker |Jake Dartington
The Oldest Game There IsThe winning poem from the Tricycle Haiku Challenge shows us what it looks like to belong to a planet.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Frederick Ranallo-Higgins |Tracy Cochran |Bhikkhu Bodhi
Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourselfby Tracy CochranShambhala Publications, April 2024, 256 pp., $18.95, paperPresence opens with a broken-down VW bus on a secluded highway in the Midwest.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Frederick Ranallo-Higgins |Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Tsultrim Allione
PODCASTWisdom Rising with Lama Tsultrim AllioneTibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tsultrim Allione—best known for Feeding Your Demons (both a practice and a book)—recently launched this insightful and addictive podcast. Allione has often spoken about how she has had to research female practitioners in Buddhist history that she could identify with, because figures like Milarepa, and even the Buddha, didn’t speak to her or her experience.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
The girls are waiting for me at the entrance of the Bodhi Institute, smiling and holding kata scarves and bundles of flowers—hibiscus, a fiery orange flower from an Ashoka tree, and other flora that have been growing in Lumbini since the time of the Buddha. The girls are a little bit shy when giving me the gifts. Then, suddenly, the little ones wrap me up in a group hug. For the next five days, they’re my personal holy-girl gang, showing me around the place where the Buddha was born.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |Chenxing Han
May We Gather, a Buddhist collective created in the wake of anti-Asian violence in the US in 2020 and 2021, will commemorate the three-year anniversary of the 2021 Atlanta spa and massage parlor shootings with a pilgrimage in Antioch, California, on March 16, 2024, and a series of online talks leading up to the event. This three-part speaker series, called “Resilience, Recovery, Repair,” will feature conversations with a variety of speakers and is cosponsored by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
This is the first year that my son, August, has been totally enthralled with Santa Claus. The questions started after Thanksgiving. How will he get into our house, through the door or the window? How will he know I live here, will he look at my face? Will he recognize the back of my head? We already live in a very imaginative and playful world, but when the questions started, it felt different to me than pretending to be dinosaurs. I was spinning a tale that will one day unravel.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
tricycle.org | Frederick Ranallo-Higgins |Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar |C. Pierce Salguero |Jeff Wilson
This year-end review skims the surface of 2023’s academic works on Buddhism, bridging the often intimidating divide between scholarly discourse and everyday practice. These articles and books taught us new perspectives, challenging and enriching our understanding of our Buddhist tradition. We believe engaging with academic studies can significantly deepen the insights that practice reveals, offering nuanced views beyond conventional teachings.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
tricycle.org | Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
When the author, radical feminist, and Black Buddhist Christian bell hooks died in late 2021, she was widely celebrated for just about everything in the mainstream press except for her spirituality. But hooks’s connection to religion is present throughout her entire breadth of work, which includes thirty books across a variety of genres as well as countless articles on feminism (and how it is for everyone), popular culture, education, recognizing the human rights of children, and more.
