
Tricycle Talks: Listen to Buddhist teachers, writers, and thinkers on life's big questions. Hosted by James Shaheen, editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the leading Buddhist magazine in the West. Life As It Is: Join James Shaheen with co-host Sharon Salzberg and learn how to bring Buddhist practice into your everyday life. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review creates award-winning editorial... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 212 | Founded | 13 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BuddhismReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality | |||

A sixteenth-generation descendant of Bizen swordsmiths, Miya Ando is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the ephemerality of natural phenomena. Her new book, Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words, presents a visual co... more
Oneika Mays is a yoga and meditation teacher and former mindfulness coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she taught for more than a decade. In her new book, Sit with Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation, she draws from her... more
When Viet Thanh Nguyen was growing up as a refugee in the United States, it was hard for him to find stories that represented his experience. Now, as a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, he is determined to center the narratives of Vietnamese writers a... more
For the past forty years, Ken McLeod has worked as a teacher and translator of Tibetan texts, practices, and rituals. With his new book, This Unexpected Jewel: Reading the Diamond Sutra, he presents a fresh and accessible translation of the Diamond S... more
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I recently joined a grief support group. Six months prior to my father‘s death, he informed me that he is not my biological father. While this is shocking in and of itself, our relationship was quite complicated in various ways. And the 10 years prior to his illness and death, we both worked hard to find places of intersection. Which led to a meaningful relationship. Now, with the news of what is known as a non-parental event, I am left perplexed. Still after his passing, I wanted to somehow emb... more
I am not a serious Buddhist, but I’ve always loved listening to Dharma talks and I’ve been dabbling with meditation for many years. I find the podcast has a lot of very interesting people and the conversations are quite authentic, something I find missing on a lot of podcast as people in the world are often speaking in the sound bites. That is definitely not the case on tricycle talks. I haven’t been motivated to review before because it’s so tricky you figuring out how to leave a review on Appl... more
I’ve enjoyed listening to James Shaheen interview Ocean Vuong, Pico Iyer, Kaira Jewel Lingo and Jake Garfield. He formulates intriguing questions and draws out his interviewees. I am moved to make a donation (Dana).
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A contemplative program pairing Buddhist teachers, poets, researchers, and writers to explore life's big questions through practice, memory, ethics, and culture. Episodes blend deep doctrine with accessible, practice-oriented prompts—reading aloud the Diamond Sutra, caregiving with presence, translating and interpreting poetry, and applying mindfulness to modern concerns like dementia, immigration, and social resilience. Notable threads include the fusion of spiritual inquiry with art, memory, and social action, plus practical exercises (meditations, readings, and rituals) and sponsor segments that contrast traditional practice with contemporary resources. The show consistently showcases diverse voices—from translators and poets to psychoth... more
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Recent guests on Tricycle Talks include:
1. Miya Ando
2. Oneika Mays
3. Viet Thanh Nguyen
4. Ken McLeod
5. Sister Tue Nghiem
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