Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
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| Editor & Publisher | James Shaheen[1] |
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| Former editors | Helen Tworkov |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| First issue | 1991 |
| Company | Tricycle Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Website | www |
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is an independent, nonsectarian Buddhist quarterly that publishes Buddhist teachings, practices, and criticism. The magazine has been called "a beacon for Western Buddhists" and has been recognized for its willingness to challenge established ideas within Buddhist communities and beyond.[2] It is based in New York City.
It is published by The Tricycle Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization established in 1990 by Helen Tworkov, a former anthropologist and longtime student of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, and chaired by composer Philip Glass.[3] James Shaheen is the current Editor and Publisher of Tricycle.
According to the Tricycle website,
The mission of The Tricycle Foundation is to create forums for exploring contemporary and historic Buddhist activity, examine the impact of its new context in the democratic traditions of the West, and introduce fresh views and attainable methods for enlightened living to the culture at large. At the core of the Foundation’s mission is the alleviation of suffering that Buddhist teachings are meant to bring about. Tricycle is an independent foundation unaffiliated with any one lineage or sect.
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According to author Jeff Wilson, "Though Tricycle seeks to represent itself as nonsectarian, in practice there is much more Zen and Tibetan material than other forms of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism...Tricycle does not represent the whole of Buddhism or even American Buddhism, but it does offer a consistently interesting perspective on issues and ideas that influence many Buddhists in the United States today."[4] According to Thomas A. Tweed in the book Westward Dharma, "...Helen Tworkov, the [founding] editor of Tricycle, estimated that half of the publication's sixty thousand subscribers do not describe themselves as Buddhist."[5]
See also
References
- ^ About The Tricycle Foundation
- ^ "2013 Utne Media Awards: The Winners". Utne. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
- ^ "About The Tricycle Foundation | Tricycle". www.tricycle.com. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
- ^ Wilson, Jeff (2000). The Buddhist Guide to New York. Macmillan. p. 244. ISBN 0-312-26715-0.
- ^ Prebish, Charles S.; Baumann, Martin (2002). Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia. University of California Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-520-22625-9.
