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Demographics, Destiny, and Dharma: An Interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Raymond Lam 16 April 2026

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche offers a bold and broad response to recent Pew research about Buddhism’s demographic decline

Book Review: Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea

Raymond Lam 20 October 2021

A study of maritime Buddhism along the littoral hubs of Asia

The Modernization of Faith and Ideology: Victoria Montrose Discusses Japanese Buddhism’s 19th Century Transformation

Raymond Lam 26 August 2016

Victoria Montrose (“Tori” to her friends, a fittingly Japanese epithet) has been immersed in Japanese culture since childhood. Victoria was four when her American father

Bringing Ancient Thai Buddhist Manuscripts to the World

BD Dipananda 8 April 2016

The University of Pennsylvania and the National Library of Laos have jointly launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts (DLNTM), an ambitious project to

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Demographics, Destiny, and Dharma: An Interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Book Review: Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea

The Modernization of Faith and Ideology: Victoria Montrose Discusses Japanese Buddhism’s 19th Century Transformation

Bringing Ancient Thai Buddhist Manuscripts to the World