To Live Is to Die: Into an Ayurvedic Retreat
Tiffani Gyatso
4 December 2023
BDG columnist Tiffani Gyatso shares her reflections on emotional healing and rebirth
Āryaśrābaka Gyaniswer Mahāsthabir (1887–1974): The Life and Legacy of a Seminal Bangladeshi Theravada Master
Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury
30 May 2023
A tribute to a monk who helped Buddhism in Bengali-speaking circles to reform and prosper in the late colonial and postcolonial periods
Study of Buddhist Monks Suggests Deep Meditation Improves Gut Microbiome for Better Health
Dipen Barua
20 January 2023
A new, small-scale study suggests that regular, deep meditation may be an active factor in transforming the gut microbiome and reducing the risk of illness.
Dependent Origination: Interconnectedness, Synchronicity, and Causality
Paola Di Maio
19 September 2022
Relating dependent origination to synchronicity
Purity, Impurity, and the Five Elements
Asa Hershoff
2 March 2021
Purification on the spiritual path
In Search of the Buddhist Body
Asa Hershoff
8 January 2021
Investigating the elemental body
Dr. Eliot Tokar: The Novel Coronavirus Through the Lens of Tibetan Medicine
Nina Müller
14 September 2020
Understanding the complementary power of…
India, China in Heritage Tug-of-war over Sowa-Rigpa Traditional Buddhist Medicine
Nina Müller
1 September 2020
Both India and China lay claim to this ancient system of…
Science and the Rainbow Body, Part 8: Light Body Transformations
Asa Hershoff
6 May 2020
Understanding the process and science of inner transformation
Healing Body and Mind: Reconnecting with the Wisdom of Medicinal Plants
Sarah C. Beasley
12 February 2019
Embracing the joy of natural remedies
Ritual Readying – Dancing, Healing, and Spiritual Realization, Part Two
Joseph Houseal
2 June 2018
Wisdom of the Ayurveda