Editor’s note: Eisel Mazard is a P?li scholar who has travelled extensively through Southeast Asia. In this interview, he shared with me his personal struggles
Perhaps no religious icon is as widely used and well-known as the image of the Buddha seated in meditation. Yet one of the curiosities of
Who doesn’t recognize the Buddha? His image appears these days on watches, tennis shoes, t-shirts – nearly any kind of manufactured product you might think
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