Passing of World-renowned Scholar Jao Tsung-I Mourned
Craig Lewis
6 February 2018
World’s leading authority on Chinese culture and a…
Thai Artists Work to Rescue 170-year-old Buddhist Murals
Craig Lewis
30 January 2018
Experts seek to halt deterioration of unique…
Education for Enlightenment: An Interview with Prof. Shashi Bala, Part Two
Lyudmila Klasanova
26 January 2018
Scholarship, education, and the Buddhadharma
An Orgiastic Aha! Epilogue: Tucci in His Own Words
Joseph Houseal
13 January 2018
The unique legacy of a scholar and an adventurer
Japanese Chef Campaigns to Preserve and Share the Buddhist Dining Tradition of Shojin Ryori
Jnan Nanda
8 January 2018
Health and mindfulness in devotional dining
Rare 15th–16th Century Murals and Sculptures Found in Sichuan Province Shed New Light on Tibetan Art
Guoying Stacy Zhang
29 December 2017
First English-language account of this exciting discovery!
Art Sutra: Do Higher Prices Mean a Higher Path?
Grace Ko
3 March 2017
For centuries, Buddhist works of art have adorned monasteries, temples, galleries, museums, and private collections around the world, monuments to Buddhism’s far-reaching impact and timeless
The Great Shravasti Buddhist Cultural Assembly
Joseph Houseal
3 March 2017
Shravasti was a dynamo of a city in the ancient world, home to nearly 1 million people in the Buddha’s lifetime during the 6th century
The Contemporary Newar Art Movement of the Kathmandu Valley
Robert Beer
13 January 2017
“No other people on earth, Watson, has produced such intricate beauty in as small a space as the Valley of Katmandu. One trenchant observer has
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
Beauty and Memory
Joseph Houseal
1 April 2016
It is a choice to remember life in beautiful ways. Dance is an art made of life itself. The human body as medium contains within