The Acrobat Family
Joseph Houseal
13 June 2026
Joseph Houseal shared a meditation on those who live lives for the transmission of ancient performance practices
The Snow Lion’s Attributes
Joseph Houseal
16 May 2026
Joseph Houseal introduces a profoundly significant new project to reconstruct formal documentation of the ritual dance heritage of the Drikung Kagyu tradition.
Dance Is Evidence: Rethinking History Through the Moving Body – Gandhara, Buddhism, and The Greeks
Joseph Houseal
14 February 2026
Joseph Houseal offers an examination of Buddhist ritual dance and movement as historic and spiritual record.
‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple
Joseph Houseal
10 January 2026
Joseph Houseal explores spiritual dance in the “Shaker” community of Maine
Book Review: Buddhist Dances: Movement and Mind, Part 2
Rebecca Wong
8 December 2025
Houseal’s study of broken or severed dance lineages identifies a powerful thread of liberation through physical movement
Book Review: Buddhist Dances: Movement and Mind, Part 1
Rebecca Wong
13 October 2025
Rebecca Wong explores the most comprehensive book on Buddhist dance and movement heritage from one of BDG’s veteran columnists
Dance Is the Complete Practice
Joseph Houseal
11 October 2025
Joseph Houseal delves into ancient links and parallels between calligraphic pictograms and ritual dance traditions
Ancient Dances Today
Joseph Houseal
13 September 2025
Joseph Houseal’s presentation for Buddhistdoor Global’s 30th Anniversary Symposium in Vancouver on 3–4 September 2025
Early Explorers and Their Encounter with Buddhism, Part Three: Dance Insight
Joseph Houseal
9 August 2025
The early explorers treated in this three-part article represent a wide range of expertise, from painting to linguistics, dance to cartography. The 15 explorers evoked
The Attan
Joseph Houseal
10 May 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the ancient cultural ties that connect Pashtun attan with Buddhist cham.
Padmasambhava’s Buddha-field of Tantric Dances: Re-establishing Dance in the Narrative of Guru Rinpoche
Joseph Houseal
12 April 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the spiritual dance legacy of Guru Rinpoche in an upcoming workshop with Karen Greenspan
I Sing the Body Electric
Joseph Houseal
15 March 2025
Joseph Houseal mandalic expressions of the human body in art and dance