
The Vanished Sorceress-Queen and the Skull-Cup Temple: Unearthing the Tangut State’s Final Legacy
From the majestic Kumbum Monastery to a cave on the outskirts of Liangzhou, hints of a sorceress-queen who resisted the world conqueror

From the majestic Kumbum Monastery to a cave on the outskirts of Liangzhou, hints of a sorceress-queen who resisted the world conqueror

British Library researcher and specialist Sam van Schaik brings magic back to its rightful prominence in Buddhist practice

A ceremony of consecration for the Buddhist monastery Tubten Shedrub Ling was held in Kyzyl, the the capital of the Republic of Tuva, on 28 April. The 12-floor monastery, intended to serve as Tuva’s principal Buddhist temple, stands 56 meters high.

Russian academic Alexey Maslov examines how Russian Buddhism and the Saint Petersburg school of Buddhist Studies have developed

All phenomena come into being (Skt: samutpada; Tib: ’byung ba) through a dependent relationship with all other phenomena. This is how we explain the Buddhist

The recognition helps to continue a lineage of reincarnated lamas that spans back nearly 400 years, connecting the Geluk Buddhist traditions of Tibet and Mongolia

Indian government hopes the gesture will give a message of peace to the world

Sharing a sacred Vajrayana text as a symbol of international dialogue and cross-cultural relations

Pioneering sanitary health, cultural heritage, and human..

One of the great ethnographers of Buddhist…

Secular expressions of a karmic destiny

Creating a Buddhist diplomacy circuit from India to Japan…