Book Review: Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia
Raymond Lam
7 May 2025
This enthralling collection of time-warping tales about the Tangut Empire is a hypnotic and feverish, yet ultimately tender masterpiece
Ramya Jirasinghe’s Water for Kings: A Sri Lankan Writer’s Poetic Vision and Caution
Raymond Lam
13 December 2024
The Sri Lankan writer expresses her country’s shadow and ongoing struggle with itself through a new acclaimed play
The Bengali Buddhist Renaissance in the Pālā Dynasty
Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury
2 May 2024
The Pālā dynasty is celebrated as one of the great royal houses of medieval India that supported Buddhist culture
Hong Kong Sees the Globe: Lindzay Chan on Master Nan Huai-chin and the Existentialism of Shakespeare’s King Lear
Raymond Lam
12 April 2024
A Hong Kong artistic icon discusses her thoughts on the Shakespearean masterpiece and her learning from a Buddhist master
Book Review: The Way of Ch’an
Raymond Lam
20 September 2023
David Hinton’s new book is a creative but historically flawed assessment of the literary and spiritual connection between Daoism and Chan
Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis: RAINING – A Meditation to Harness the Energy of our Difficult Feelings
Ratnadevi
9 December 2022
Using meditation to allow ourselves to fully feel our emotions as the climate crisis threatens to overwhelm us
Book Review: Delight in One Thousand Characters
Raymond Lam
7 December 2022
Exploring a new translation and analysis of the One Thousand Character Essay, a core text teaching the art of Chinese calligraphy and culture
Book Review: Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. Blyth
Raymond Lam
8 July 2022
A look at Norman Waddell’s new anthology of letters, essays, and more from R. H. Blyth
Book Review: The Taming of the Demons: From the Epic of Gesar of Ling
Raymond Lam
7 April 2022
Despite the dominance of Vajrayana in the Western Buddhist imagination, the national epic of Tibet, The Epic of Gesar of Ling, is not well known.
Korean Buddhist Manuscripts Exhibited for Hangeul Day
Justin Whitaker
12 October 2021
Texts dating back over 600 years help unlock the history of Buddhism in Korea
God of the Unknown: The Buddha in Chilean Magazines at the Turn of the 20th Century
María Elvira Ríos
29 September 2021
The history of early representations of Buddhism in Chile
The Secret of the Golden Flower, Part Two
Joseph Houseal
12 June 2021
An ancient and experiential practice of the mind and realization