Court Orders Stolen Buddhist Statue in South Korea to be Returned to Japan
Justin Whitaker
30 October 2023
The statue was likely made in South Korea in 1330 but has spent most of its life enshrined in a temple in Japan
Giant Kannon Statue in Japan Gets a Facemask as a Prayer to Overcome COVID-19
Justin Whitaker
18 June 2021
Workers placed a symbolic four-meter wide mask on the…
Dalai Lama to Release First Album in July, Offering Mantras and Teachings Set to Music
Justin Whitaker
11 June 2020
Five years in the making, music project seeks to…
Buddhist Iconography Along the Silk Road with Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi, Part Two – The Land Route
Wendy Yu
3 September 2019
The second in a series on the spread of early Buddhism as…
Buddhist Iconography Along the Silk Road, Part One – A Lecture by Prof. Osmund Bopearachchi
Shantel Wong
21 August 2019
How trade, rivers, and oceans shaped the spread of…
Monks from Drepung Gomang Monastic University Create Sand Mandalas in Kalmykia
Lyudmila Klasanova
30 October 2018
Monastics form Manjushri mandala and two…