Big Book, Small Kingdom
Joseph Houseal
4 May 2019
Ambitious photographic glimpses of the Himalayan…
New Book, Signed by the Dalai Lama, Offers a Unique Glimpse of Rare Buddhist Murals from Tibet
Craig C Lewis
9 May 2018
Two-volume work limited to 998 copies
An Eye, a Lens, a Dance
Joseph Houseal
2 March 2018
Movement and light, an exhibition of dance…
Contemplating the Headless Buddha: The Photographic Work of Dinh Q. Lê
Meher McArthur
9 January 2018
Photography as an artistic restructuring and…
Self, Other, and the Spaces Between: Behind the Lens with Niçoise Photographer Fiorenza Menini
Sarah C. Beasley
5 May 2017
“It is so magical, it is so wondrous, this meeting, as in a dream—”** I met artist Fiorenza Menini during late summer 2014. After visiting
Buddhism in Contemporary China Through a Photographer’s Eye
Guoying Stacy Zhang
23 December 2016
According to the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center, 18.2 per cent of China’s population—that is 224 million people—are Buddhists, accounting for about half of the
Meditations in Light by Echo Lew
Meher McArthur
30 September 2016
In 2006, Taiwanese-American artist Echo Lew (b.1951) was visiting Shanghai from his home near Los Angeles. One night, he found himself standing on a street
Seeing the Sacred: an Interview with Pawo Choyning Dorji, Producer of Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait
Harsha Menon, MA, MFA
15 September 2016
Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait is the fourth film by Bhutanese lama and director Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche. Set in the forests
When Dance Transforms
Joseph Houseal
24 June 2016
Dance is the most ephemeral of the arts. Capturing the art of movement in a still photograph is an art in itself. To represent the
The Wonders of Kham and Larung Gar, Part Two
Victoria Knobloch
28 August 2015
Last spring, Victoria traveled overland from Chengdu to Larung Gar Buddhist Institutue in the traditional Tibetan region of Kham. Part One* of her account describes
Hiroshima’s Hibaku Jizo
Meher McArthur
7 August 2015
In Japanese temples or along the sides of roads, small stone statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo are a common sight. According to Japanese Buddhist