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Dekila Chungyalpa: Becoming a Buddhist Climate Scientist episode / season 1

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For the last 12 years, Dekila Chungyalpa has worked with religious and indigenous leaders, scientists, and policymakers to design community-based environmental and climate programs. But having grown up in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, surrounded by strong women who chose to walk the monastic path, Chungyalpa hasn’t always found it easy to show up as both a devout Tibetan Buddhist and a conservation scientist. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Chungyalpa shares with Tricycle’s editor James Shaheen how she’s come to integrate her commitments to science and faith, deal with climate deniers, and head the Loka Initiative, a climate-change outreach program that empowers and uplifts religious communities. In the face of so much eco-anxiety, climate distress, and doom and gloom, it is ultimately Buddhist teachings on emptiness, impermanence, non-attachment, and compassion, she says, that sustain her.

Season 1

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Listening Fearlessly with Meredith Monk

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Casting Indra's Net with Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Living at the Edge of Chaos with Neil Theise

Opening to Freedom with Sharon Salzberg

The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod

Joy as a Practice of Resistance and Belonging with Ross Gay

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How Art Can Liberate Our Perception with Charles Johnson

A Practical Guide to the Zen Precepts with Nancy Mujo Baker

It's Never Too Late to Be Happy with Robert Waldinger

Searching for Paradise with Pico Iyer

Learning to Live without Shame with Sandra Cisneros

The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha with Bernard Faure

Navigating Grief and Loss with Kimberly Brown

The Role of the Artist in Times of Crisis with Ben Okri

Making Peace with Our Longing to Belong with Valerie Brown

Getting Untangled with Koshin Paley Ellison

Not Enlightened, But Lighter with Yung Pueblo

Transforming Anger into Compassion with Allison Aitken

Breaking Free of the Stories We Tell Ourselves with Catherine Burns

Sarah Shaw on the Jhanas and Awakening through Joy

Healing Burnout with Jan Chozen Bays

Revisiting Ritual with Anne Klein

Tapping Into Our Collective Wisdom with Sumi Loundon Kim

A Beginner's Guide to Rebirth with Roger Jackson

The Radical Power of Just Showing Up with Shelly Tygielski

Remembering the Forgotten War with Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Getting Close to the Terror with Ocean Vuong

Learning to Live Without a Self with Jay Garfield

Dwelling in the Casita of Equanimity with Daisy Hernández

Finding Beauty in Asymmetry with Playwright Sarah Ruhl

Quan Barry on Desire, Doubt, and Faith in a Changing World

Dharma Songs to Stir and Settle with Trent Walker

On the Road to Awakening with the Traveling Nunk

The Zen of Therapy with Mark Epstein

Coming Back to Embodiment

Inside the Issue: Embracing Our Interdependence

Inside the Issue: Suzuki Roshi's Approach to Disagreement

Inside the Issue: Sarah Ruhl on Finding Her Original Face

Solving the Climate Crisis in One Generation

What Reality TV Can Teach Us About Surviving Ourselves

Accepting Death to Live More Fully

'Music or Madness, It's Up to You'

Every Moment Is a Bardo

The Anxiety of Return

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Diseases of the Heart

The Hungry Ghosts Among Us

How a Buddhist Mom and Activist Took on the National Rifle Association

Sharon Salzberg: Breaking Down Love

Shozan Jack Haubner: When Your Sangha’s Sex Scandal Goes Viral

Robert Wright: Why (Science Says) Buddhism Is True

Andrew Holecek: The Good Death

Michael Kinnamon: How Religion Can Bring Peace to a Fearful World

Jeff Wilson: Mindful America

Pamela Gayle White: Mindfulness and Awareness in End of Life Care

Mark Epstein: Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara: Getting Intimate

Arun Gandhi: The Gift of Anger and Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

(Part 2) Mindfulness in Prison and Beyond: On Retreat at the Engaged Mindfulness Institute

Sharon Salzberg: Real Happiness at Work

Katy Butler: A Life Too Long

Guy Armstrong: What Do Buddhists Mean When They Talk About Not-Self?

Frank Ostaseski: Learning to Living Fully

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Geshe Wangyal: America's First Lama

Mark Epstein: The Task Is Being You

Johan Elverskog: How Buddhist & Muslim Stereotypes Conceal the Real History

Allan Badiner: The Psychedelics of Compassion

Arno Michaelis & Pardeep Singh: How to Fight Hate (Without Your Fists)

Roshi Joan Halifax: Empathy's Double-Edge

Lawrence Levy: Beating Burnout by Just Being

Lama Tsultrim Allione: Transforming Negativity Through Fierce Feminine Wisdom

Judson Brewer: The Mindful Way to Kick a Craving

Donald Lopez & Jacqueline Stone: How to Read the Lotus Sutra

Rhonda Magee: Learning to See Our Racial Biases

Elaine Pagels: Why Do We Still Have Religion?

Ronald Purser: McMindfulness

Pico Iyer: Inside Japan as an Outsider

Candy Gunther Brown: Is School Mindfulness Bringing Religion into the Classroom?

Duncan Ryuken Williams: When Buddhists Were a “National Security Threat”

Helen Tworkov: Dying Every Day

Haemin Sunim: Letting Go of the Perfect Self

Lawrence Shainberg: Staring at the Wall with Samuel Beckett & Norman Mailer

Real Change: A Succession Star on the Power of Empathy

Koshin Paley Ellison: Waking Up from Zombieland

Real Change: Finding Our Refuge in Ourselves

Real Change: Pandemic of Love

Evan Thompson: Why I'm Not a Buddhist

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: Patience to Make It Through

Tara Brach: Radical Compassion

Carina Stone: The Legacy of Michael Stone

Wisdom for My Grandson with Charles Johnson

Real Change: Meditation and Action

Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude

Real Change: Economic Justice for All

Jack Miles: Religion As We Know It

Joanna Macy: The Work of Our Time

Inside Tricycle’s Spring 2021 Issue

Barbara Bonner: Is Forgiveness Buddhist?

Sebene Selassie: You Belong

Sam van Schaik: Buddhist Magic and Why We Shouldn’t Cast It Aside

Black and Buddhist: Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl Giles

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