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Messengers of Mind, Cultural Explorers and the Encounter with Buddhism, Part One: A Gallery of Explorers

Joseph Houseal 14 June 2025

Joseph Houseal explores the adventurer-scholars, mystic-wanderers, and artist-seekers behind the West’s early exposures to Buddhism

Ceremonial tsam mask. From the Milan Klečka collection. A tourdag mask of a burial grounds protector. A pair of protectors defends the dance ground. They wear dresses decorated with a skeleton pattern, with colorful fans on the sides of the head, so-called “butterflies.” In the background, the mask of the god of war. Photo by Jakub Šedý. Image courtesy of the Náprstek Museum

The Secret Life of Collections

Joseph Houseal 11 July 2020

Insights into Czech cultural connections with Buddhist…

The Special Friendship of Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama, Born from the Emergence of Freedom in Post-Communist Czechoslovakia

Zuzi Griffiths Cernakova 9 December 2016

In November 1989, as an 11-year-old, I watched a puzzling scene unfold on our black-and-white TV: huge crowds of people had gathered in central Prague

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Messengers of Mind, Cultural Explorers and the Encounter with Buddhism, Part One: A Gallery of Explorers

The Secret Life of Collections