for "Best Spiritual Magazine" three times. Editorial Articles in Tricycle cover a range of Buddhist traditions, practices, and types of meditation, as well as general topics viewed through a Buddhist lens. This includes family, community, work, arts and culture, politics, social justice, the environment, aging, and death. Contributors have included the Dalai Lama, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Glass, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Curtis White, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Stephen Batchelor, Pema Chödrön, bell hooks, Robert Aitken, Alice Walker, Spalding Gray, Robert Thurman, Bernie Glassman, John Cage, Joanna Macy, Sulak Sivaraksa, Laurie Anderson, Guo Gu, Martin Scorsese, Pico Iyer, and Tom Robbins. According to Sallie Dinkel from New York Magazine, “Tricycle has functioned as a kind of tugboat of awareness, pushing and pulling traditional Buddhism in a direction that will make sense for the worldly American mainstream… The magazine has published articles on abortion, euthanasia, AIDS, and the Los Angeles riots.” Buddhism in the United States Helen Tworkov has said she has "seen a growing acceptance of Buddhist practice throughout the country, although not without a degree of misunderstanding, like a belief among some people that the Dalai Lama is a sort of ‘Buddhist pope,’ in a tradition that lacks such an office." However, Ms. Tworkov has also expressed worry about whether American Buddhism is evolving into “simply another projection of the white majority.” This touches on the tensions that have existed around the definition(s) of American Buddhism, and how race and nationality fit into that definition. Change Your Mind Day In 1993, Tricycle created “Change Your Mind Day," an afternoon of free meditation instruction held in New York City's Central Park. The event was designed to introduce “the general public to Buddhist thought and practice." During the first Change Your Mind Day, newcomers and seasoned Buddhists meditated, listened to performances by Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, and did tai-ch’i. Tworkov described the event: "We invite teachers from different traditions to give instruction on meditation. The miracle, if you get into it, is you can have a couple of thousand people in New York City and it can get very, very quiet. It takes on a kind of tranquillity and collective consciousness, and everybody notices it." Rande Brown, a former member of Tricycle's board, estimated that 300 people attended the first event, and that 10 times that number attended in 1998. She said,