Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is a print and digital magazine dedicated to making Buddhist teachings and practices broadly available. Tricycle also offers monthly online spiritual films, podcasts with leading Buddhist voices, weekly dharma talk videos, and a variety of online courses with expert teachers.
By remaining unaffiliated with any particular teacher, sect, or lineage, Tricycle provides a unique and independent public forum for exploring Buddhism, establishing a dialogue between Buddhism and the broader culture, and introducing Buddhist thinking to western disciplines.
Tricycle's readership includes longtime Buddhist practitioners, those who are curious about Buddhism or meditation, and those who do not identify as Buddhist but seek to enrich their lives through a deeper knowledge of Buddhist traditions.
current partnership
How to hone Moral attention
And why it’s so important
15 November 2021
Written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Beverly McGuire
Trust in times of uncertainty
20 August 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media parter
Dr. Renée Ford
THE BUDDHA DIDN’T TEACH CONSENT
Can early Buddhism help us develop a better sexual ethics anyway?
23 February 2021
written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Amy Paris Langenberg
Current media partnership fellows
Dr. RENÉE LYNN FORD
Renée L. Ford is a partner with Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Her doctoral research focuses on affective, embodied, and performative contemplative practices in Tibetan Buddhism. She has translated practice texts and poetry from Tibetan to English. Ford’s public scholarship includes articles in Religions and the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. She holds an M.A. in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University.
PHILIP FRIEDRICH
Philip Friedrich is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral research is focused on the social history of Buddhist institutions during a period of supposed ‘political collapse’ in late-medieval Sri Lanka. He has written on the relationship between courtly, mercantile, and monastic domains of thought and practice across the Buddhist world, as well as the politics of history writing in contemporary Sri Lanka. He has taught classes at Hamilton College, Bowdoin College, and as the Resident Faculty Director of the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education Program in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Follow him on Twitter @mrpils7.
DR. BEVERLEY MCGUIRE
Beverley McGuire is a professor of East Asian religions at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work focuses on Buddhist views of karma, approaches to digital technology, and responses to natural disasters. She is the author of Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu (Columbia 2014), and she is currently participating in a Luce-sponsored research program about "Public Theologies of Technology and Presence"(2018-2021) at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Follow her on Twitter @FoulksMcGuire.
DR. AMY PARIS LANGENBERG
Amy Paris Langenberg is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College, a liberal arts college in Florida. She is a specialist in classical South Asian Buddhism with a focus on monasticism, gender, sexuality, and the body. She also conducts ethnographic research on contemporary Buddhist feminisms, contemporary female Buddhist monasticism, and, more recently, sexual abuse in American Buddhism. She is currently interested in how notions of agency, autonomy, freedom, and consent function in contemporary religious communities, and the role of affect, the body, and emotion in religious life. Professor Langenberg’s monograph, Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom was published by Routledge in 2017. Her current project is a collaborative book on generative responses to sexual abuse in American Buddhism, to be co-written with Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida) and published with Yale University Press.