When There is Here. A Monk Returns Home to a New Awakening
The small van drove through the archway of the monastery where I had been ordained and spent four years of my life as a monk.
The small van drove through the archway of the monastery where I had been ordained and spent four years of my life as a monk.
Nestled between China and India on the eastern edges of the mighty Himalayas, the tiny Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan is remarkable for a number of
Fifty years ago, an English woman, Freda Bedi, became one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun some time after
Recent public statements by senior politicians and prominent monks in Myanmar suggest that the country’s mainstream monastic sangha appears to be winning its public relations
It’s 7am on a Saturday and already about 200 people have gathered at Myantaung Monastery in Pantanaw, about a 2-1/2 hour drive from Myanmar’s capital
The pagodas of Myanmar are tangible, physical expressions of the vast accumulations of merit (Burmese: kutho, also known as hpon) by the Buddhist communities that support
Thailand’s Khao Phansa festival marks the beginning of the annual, three-month rains retreat for monastics (Pali: vassavasa), beginning the day after the full moon of the
This article is published to coincide with the birthday of Trulshik Rinpoche’s yangsi on 25 July. Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, Ngawang Chökyi Lodro (1924–2011), was the incarnation of
Researching endangered dance traditions as I do, it is usual to chronicle the problems, challenges of discovery, along with the qualities of vanishing practices. So
From Imperialism and Conquest to Identification and Allegiance Anglophone literature about the historical contact between Buddhism and the West focuses overwhelmingly on the Anglo-American experience,
At the moment the demon Mara attacked the Buddha and nearly derailed his path to enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Buddha lamented that he could
A fuzzy-furred gibbon seated on a rugged boulder reaches an arm out over a rushing river and tries to scoop up the reflection of the