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Los Angeles’s Higashi Honganji sees incredible donations after potential hate crime, Myanmar women put their bodies—and their bras—on the line, and over 150 monks at Tibetan monastery in India test positive for COVID-19. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
Thailand’s National Office of Buddhism says that it wants to pursue a legal battle against the streetwear brand for using an image of the late monk Luang Phor Koon, activist monks oppose hydropower projects in India, and 2000-year-old Buddhist manuscripts spark debate about studying relics bought on the black market. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
The United Sherpa Association helps struggling members of the Nepalese community during COVID-19, monks back Indian farmers, and plant-based meat has been around for much longer than the Impossible burger. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
A Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, plans a satellite location (literally), Bhutan reports its first COVID death, and Buddhist monks protest against the military coup in Myanmar. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
A military coup seizes power in Myanmar, India donates vaccines to the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, and a mendicant monk known for roaming the streets of Tokyo dies of COVID-19. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
Tibetan language advocate Tashi Wangchuk is released from a Chinese prison, an online forum connects Asian American Buddhist writers and artists, and the Dalai Lama congratulates President Joe Biden. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
Scientists search for the origins of COVID-19 at bat-filled Buddhist grottoes in Thailand, the Indian village where Kamala Harris’s grandfather was born celebrates the inauguration, and a Shingon priest publishes his stunning bug photography. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
The American Bar Foundation and the University of Chicago sponsor a series of weekly conferences on constitutional studies and Buddhist legal thought, archaeologists discover earliest known female-led monastery, and Japanese temples invest in government bonds. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
Tibetans in exile vote in the first round of elections for the next president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Modi proposes a library of Buddhist literature, and why those Dalai Lama guidelines made it into the COVID relief bill. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen
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