Civilization in Equipoise
Joseph Houseal
3 February 2018
Form, movement, and narrative in the art of M. F…
Giuseppe Tucci, an Orgiastic Aha! Part One
Joseph Houseal
5 October 2017
Giuseppe Tucci (1894–1984) was an Italian scholar-adventurer who supervised archeological digs in Iran, Persepolis, and the Himalayas.
When Guanyin Jumps Off a Cliff
Joseph Houseal
8 September 2017
The words fable and fabulous share the same root, the Latin word fabula, meaning story. Over time and use in the French and English languages, a fable
Dancers in High Places
Joseph Houseal
14 August 2015
The dancing mind is another mind. In Vajrayana Buddhist Cham, dance is yoga, the dancing mind the whole point—the center of the experience. Monk-dancers are
Charya Nritya: Ancient Buddhist Dances of Wisdom and Healing in the Modern World
LiAnne Takeuchi Hunt
17 April 2015
Bringing the Buddhist dancing heritage to life
Hemis Festival: the Masked Dance of Ladakh
Stella Peters
28 September 2013
Editor’s note: Stella Peters is a writer/photographer from Amsterdam who focuses on inequality and human interest stories. She is currently studying anthropology in an Advanced master’s programme
Bhutanese music, song, and dance
Buddhistdoor Global
19 March 2013
Music from Bhutan is ambient while creatively carving out an ethereal dimension for dance and song. Such an arresting kind of music is only natural coming from