Pakistan Hosts Symposium to Showcase Buddhist Tourism Sites
Justin Whitaker
13 July 2023
The county’s leaders hope to show a welcoming, tourist-friendly side to the Buddhist world
Buddhica Antiqua: Preserving Ancient Buddhist Heritage with the Digitalisation of Gandharan Artefacts Team
Raymond Lam
27 June 2023
A Bochum-based research team’s collaboration with Pakistani researchers will transform Gandhara art studies
Karmayōgī Kṛpāśaraṇa Mahāthērō (1865–1927): The Forgotten Monk Who Built Buddhism in Modern India and Bangladesh
Sanjoy Barua Chowdhury
16 March 2023
How a Buddhist monk came from poverty to re-invigorating Buddhism in modern India and Bangladesh amid a rapidly changing South Asia
Khyentse Foundation Supports Donation of Ancient Gandhari Buddhist Manuscripts to Pakistan
Craig Lewis
15 March 2023
Khyentse Foundation has announced that a collection of 2,000-year-old Buddhist manuscripts have been donated to the Islamabad Museum in Pakistan.
Engaged Buddhism: JTS Korea Distributes Humanitarian Aid in Pakistan
Craig Lewis
22 February 2023
The Buddhist relief organization JTS Korea, founded by the Korean monk Ven. Pomnyun Sunim, has reported the distribution of relief supplies in Pakistan.
Gandharan Text at the US Library of Congress May Rewrite the History of Buddhism
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
29 November 2022
The discovery shows there is still much work to be done to understand the earliest centuries of Buddhism’s development
UPDATE: Archeologists Detail Importance of Buddhist Artifacts Found in Pakistan
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
1 March 2022
Growing list of discoveries in Pakistan will strengthen the country’s place as a site for Buddhist pilgrimage and tourism
1,800-Year-Old Buddhist Stupa and Relics Unearthed in Pakistan
Craig Lewis
7 February 2022
Archeologists in Pakistan say they have unearthed an 1,800-year-old Buddhist stupa and a trove of relics and artifacts at a site in the northwestern province
Ancient Buddhist Temple Discovered in Pakistan
Raymond Lam
22 December 2021
The Gandhara-era discovery, deemed “astonishingly important,” may precede similar sites in Taxila in its antiquity
Jogye Order Confers Award on Pakistan’s Ambassador to South Korea
Raymond Lam
21 December 2021
Pakistan’s Mumtaz Zahra Baloch becomes the first non-Korean national to receive the Plaque of Gratitude award
Pakistan’s Surviving Buddhist Communities in Danger of Extinction
Dipen Barua
15 October 2021
Buddhists cite a lack of places to worship, religious teachers, and government support
Buddhistdoor View: Respectful Scholarship – Moving Forward and Learning from the Past
Buddhistdoor Global
6 March 2021
Recent controversy exposes dilemmas in antiquities…