Arts & Letters – Spirituality

Naropa University, the Boulder, Colorado-based university founded by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, announced on Tuesday that it will add a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate to its roster. The 200-hour non-degree will offer post-graduate level training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT), trauma-informed care, and spiritual integration. The program will incorporate a course in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy that launched in 2020 and add additional psychedelic therapies, such as the use of ketamine and psilocybin....

Alison Spiegel, Amanda Lim Patton, and Daniel Ilan Cohen Thin Chinese government officials said last week that Tibetan monasteries and study centers must begin translating classroom texts into Mandarin. The policy, made public at a three-day conference held at Tso-Ngon Buddhist University in Xining, also instructs monastics to learn Chinese and use it to speak to each other instead of speaking in their native languages. As of yet, it is unclear whether...

n a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’seditor-in-chief James Shaheen spoke with Ruth Ozeki, a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest, to discuss her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. The book follows the story of a young boy, Benny Oh, who begins to hear the voices of everyday objects after his father’s death. In this poignant exploration of grief, creativity, and madness, Ozeki weaves together Zen Buddhism, global pop culture, environmental...

“‘Buddhism is not only about rituals and meditation,’ says the well-known scholar and Buddhist teacher Stephen Batchelor. According to him, Buddhism is primarily about developing an ethical perspective on the world to overcome human problems. Learn from Batchelor how Buddhism can be a secular, pragmatic, and ethical basis from which to stimulate human flourishing.”