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    Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Film Festival Preview: Happiness for No Reason with Tsoknyi Rinpoche Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 03 Jun 2013
    The Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Film Festival is back! WHEN: June 17 - July 28 (ticket sales begin June 3) WHAT: The Best in Buddhist Film WHERE: Wherever you are! Starting on Monday, June 17, Tricycle will be home to the third annual Tricycle | BuddhaFest Online Film Festival. This year's festivities will include six new Buddhist films, six interviews with the films' directors, and six dharma talks with leading Buddhist teachers! We'll also be showing footage from the live BuddhaFest event, June 20-23 in Washington, D.C., and a special encore of past BuddhaFest dharma talks and discussions. More »
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    Tricycle Short Film Trailer Release: Amituofo Paid Member

    Posted by Andrew Gladstone on 20 May 2013
    "A lot of people believe that martial arts was born in the Shaolin Temple. That's not true. When the Chinese people were born, martial arts was born. But the Shaolin Temple was the first place to combine all the martial arts together." —Shifu Shi Yan Ming, abbot of the USA Shaolin Temple More »
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    On Meditation: An interview with filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus Paid Member

    Posted by Alex Caring-Lobel on 04 Apr 2013
    Rebecca Dreyfus is the director of the forthcoming film series On Meditation, which documents the inner journey of meditation through portraits of practitioners from a variety of traditions. The team has so far filmed the Venerable Metteya, Hatha yoga teacher Elena Brower, author and Zen practitioner Peter Matthiessen, actor Giancarlo Esposito, and mindful congressman Tim Ryan. Filmmaker David Lynch is slated next. Known for her feature-length documentary Stolen, Dreyfus was inspired to film On Meditation by a curiosity about other people’s practices and a desire to cultivate her own. Tricycle spoke to Dreyfus earlier in the week by email about the impetus behind the film series and the challenges of depicting an inward-turning practice on film. More »
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    Planetary Purpose: A Video Interview with Director Guy Reid Paid Member

    Posted by Alex Caring-Lobel on 27 Feb 2013
    Last week Tricycle caught up with film director and Planetary Collective founding member Guy Reid to talk about the group's short film Overview and their forthcoming feature film Continuum. The Collective, founded in 2011, responds to the most pressing issues our civilization is currently facing as we push the planet to its brink. Its members, pulling from their Buddhist backgrounds, attribute the roots of the environmental and social crises facing humanity to the misperception that we are separate—from each other, the planet and the cosmos as a whole. The solution, they contend, can be found in an emerging worldview that points to our interdependence. More »
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    When the Iron Bird Flies: An Interview with Director Victress Hitchcock Paid Member

    Posted by Alex Caring-Lobel on 06 Feb 2013
    In her documentary When the Iron Bird Flies, now showing at the Tricycle Film Club through the month of February, director Victress Hitchcock follows the journey of Tibetan Buddhism from its past seclusion in the Land of Snows to its current (almost) mainstream status in the West. The film explores a pressing question as Tibetan Buddhism's influence grows worldwide: In these incredibly chaotic, modern times, can these age old teachings help us find genuine happiness—and create a saner, more compassionate 21st century world? More »
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    Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman: The Dude and the Zen Master Paid Member

    Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 09 Jan 2013
    The Tricycle staff had a lot of fun last night at the NYC Union Square Barnes & Noble event featuring actor Jeff Bridges, Zen teacher Bernie Glassman, and Tricycle's very own editor and publisher James Shaheen. Jeff and Bernie were there to promote their recently released book The Dude and the Zen Master. If you've seen The Big Lebowski, you know which one is the Dude and which one is the Zen master, although many fans of the cult classic claim that the Dude is a Zen master. The two friends spent five days at Jeff's ranch in Montana doing what they call "jammin'" and what I like to call being on a "bro retreat"—chilling out, talking about life, and smoking cigars. Their conversation was recorded, transcribed, and voilà: The Dude and the Zen Master was born. More »