Chicago Museum Returns Buddhist Painting to South Korea
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
19 June 2025
The 18th-century painting had been missing for 35 years when it was discovered in the online database of the Chicago museum
Buddhist Heritage: Art Institute of Chicago Returns Stolen 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal
Craig Lewis
19 March 2025
The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture of the Buddha to Nepal after learning that it was stolen.
Tantric Transformation
Joseph Houseal
15 February 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the living manifestations of Newar tantric dance preserved and practiced by Prajwal Vajracharya
Symposium at Northwestern University Addresses Sexual Violence in Buddhism
Justin Whitaker
31 October 2024
The symposium demonstrated that sexual abuse in Buddhism is an ongoing global crisis that extends across all schools and sects
Buddhistdoor View: Grounding our Human Values and Human Rights
Buddhistdoor Global
19 August 2023
As the Parliament of the World’s Religions celebrates its 130th anniversary, we examine the concept of Human Rights in Buddhism
Interfaith Dialogue: Parliament of the World’s Religions Convenes in Chicago with a Focus on Human Rights
Craig Lewis
15 August 2023
The 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions commenced on Monday, with some 6,500 religious and spiritual leaders assembling in Chicago.
What Gets Burned When the Torch Is Passed?
Joseph Houseal
26 November 2022
Of dance and transmission; of lineages and legacies old and new
Dance and Museums, Celebrating Core of Culture at 20
Joseph Houseal
16 May 2020
Tracing Intangible world heritage and ancient dance…
Dance in the Reality You Have
Joseph Houseal
11 January 2020
Reflecting and expressing authenticity
Big Book, Small Kingdom
Joseph Houseal
4 May 2019
Ambitious photographic glimpses of the Himalayan…
Memorial Symposium to be Held in Chicago for Buddhist Scholar Steven Collins
Justin Whitaker
7 November 2018
Symposium to honor the life and work of…
An Eye, a Lens, a Dance
Joseph Houseal
2 March 2018
Movement and light, an exhibition of dance…