Tricycle Talks

James Shaheen, Sharon Salzberg

Booking Overview

An interview-led Buddhist spirituality show focused on Buddhist practice, meditation, and life’s ethical and existential questions, featuring Buddhist teachers, writers, thinkers, artists, and authors. PR agencies could credibly pitch Buddhist and meditation teachers, contemplative authors, scholars, and artists with substantive Buddhist themes or a timely book; booking difficulty is medium because the show regularly features established subject-matter experts and notable authors, including Pulitzer Prize-winning writers.

Metrics

Episodes: 213

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 18.9k subscribers

Instagram: 97.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

foundation@tricycle.org

editorial@tricycle.org

sam@tricycle.org

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Host

James Shaheen - Editor in chief of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and an interviewer focused on Buddhist teachings, practice, and contemporary spiritual life.

Sharon Salzberg - Meditation teacher and author known for teaching loving-kindness, mindfulness, and Buddhist meditation practices.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Buddhist teachers, meditation instructors, contemplative authors, scholars, and artists with substantial work connected to Buddhist practice or spiritual life; guests commonly have a recent book or established teaching, writing, or artistic career.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Established Buddhist or meditation teaching, Recognized literary or artistic work, Major literary distinction

Recent Guest Discussions

Miya Ando - Impermanence, Mono No Aware, Buddhist Influence, Attention To Nature, And Visual Art.

Oneika Mays - Loving-kindness Meditation, Internal Freedom, Mindfulness In Difficult Environments, And Wholeness.

Viet Thanh Nguyen - Writing, Erasure, Diaspora, Colonialism, Displacement, Memory, And Political Imagination.

Ken McLeod - The Diamond Sutra, Buddhist Translation, Conceptual Understanding, Direct Experience, And Practice.

Sister Tue Nghiem - Caregiving, Letting Go, Compassion, Suffering, Presence, And Non-fear.

Recent Topics

Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Compassion

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Tricycle Talks

Bridging Contemplation and Action with Jonathan F. P. Rose

September 09, 2026

Jonathan F. P. Rose is an urban planner and philanthropist whose work focuses on creating more environmentally, socially, and economically resilient cities. In 2003, he and his wife, Diana Rose, cofounded the Garrison Institute, a retreat center in the Hudson Valley dedicated to the intersection of contemplation and engaged action. In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg sit down with Rose to discuss how he first cam...

Illustrating Impermanence with Miya Ando

August 26, 2026

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 compendium of terms for rain, featuring expressions from Buddhist rain sutras, Heian-era poetic anthologies, and regionally specific terms from throughout Japan. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits dow...

The Practice of Freedom with Oneika Mays

August 19, 2026

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 experience at Rikers to lay out a clear and accessible guide to metta, or loving-kindness practice. In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg sit down with Mays to discuss...

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sam@tricycle.org

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