The Attan
Joseph Houseal
10 May 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the ancient cultural ties that connect Pashtun attan with Buddhist cham.
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
Padmasambhava’s Buddha-field of Tantric Dances: Re-establishing Dance in the Narrative of Guru Rinpoche
Joseph Houseal
12 April 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the spiritual dance legacy of Guru Rinpoche in an upcoming workshop with Karen Greenspan
Only This, Wisdom Mind
Asa Hershoff
2 April 2025
Asa Hershoff reflects on the tantric view of pure awareness
I Sing the Body Electric
Joseph Houseal
15 March 2025
Joseph Houseal mandalic expressions of the human body in art and dance
Fifth Cohort of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns Graduates from Advanced Tantric Studies Program
Craig Lewis
10 March 2025
The Tibetan Nuns Project announced that nine Tibetan Buddhist nuns graduated from the year-long Tantric Studies program at Gyuto Tantric University.
New Treasures Unearthed at Ongoing Ratnagiri Archaeological Excavation in Odisha, India
Craig Lewis
3 March 2025
Archaeological excavations at Ratnagiri have garnered media attention for the wealth of artifacts unearthed—evidence of the region’s rich Buddhist heritage.
Tantric Transformation
Joseph Houseal
15 February 2025
Joseph Houseal explores the living manifestations of Newar tantric dance preserved and practiced by Prajwal Vajracharya
Optimizing the Wood Snake Year
Asa Hershoff
10 February 2025
Asa Hershoff ponders the Karmic perils, pitfalls, and opportunities in the year of the snake
In the Sacred Lands of the Bengali Baba
Tiffani Gyatso
8 January 2025
Tiffani Gyatso chronicles her pilgrimage to the mountains of Sikkim to meet the guru known as “Bengali Baba”
Buddhism’s Retreat from India: A History Lesson in the Survival and Decline of the Dharma
Dipen Barua
27 December 2024
Dr. Dipen Barua gives an overview of the diverse factors behind the decline of Buddhism in India, with a prescient warning for the present
Mystical Dances in the Kingdom of Bhutan, Part 3: Treasure Dances, the Long Tradition of Mystically Revealed Tercham
Joseph Houseal
14 December 2024
Joseph Houseal continues his three-part exploration of the manifestations of sacred ritual dance in Bhutan