Bodh Gaya

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Ithaca’s Namgyal Monastery Will Build the First Dalai Lama Library and Learning Center

The new center will contain all the works of the current and previous Dalai Lamas. Plus, Meditating for Black Lives holds a guided meditation for Juneteenth, and Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial begins.

By Alison Spiegel, Amanda Lim Patton, and Daniel Ilan Cohen Thin

Jun 19, 2021

News Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz Weekly: Buddhists Resist Turning Bodhgaya into Quarantine Site

Monasteries in Bodhgaya, India, request that they not be used as quarantine centers, the coronavirus reaches Rohingya camps, and Tibetan women create a hotline to help people affected by violence during lockdown. Tricycle looks back at…

By Emily DeMaioNewton and Karen Jensen

May 23, 2020

Ideas Tibetan Buddhism

Time for Radical Change in How We Raise Our Tulkus

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse writes that current training is not preparing young lineage holders for maturity and spiritual leadership.

By Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

Aug 22, 2016

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: Historic opportunity for Buddhist nuns

Nuns get a college, the Spring 2016 issue arrives, and postmodern Zen koans

By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar

Feb 05, 2016

Buddha Buzz

Buddha Buzz: Birthday Celebrations for HHDL Draw Teargas and Gunfire in Tibet

Celebrations honoring the Dalai Lama’s 78th birthday were disrupted on Saturday in the Ganzi prefecture in Tibet when Chinese paramilitary forces fired on a crowd of 500 Tibetans, leaving at least six injured. Host to a…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jul 12, 2013

News

Bomb Blasts Rock Buddhist Pilgrimage Site in India

A series of low intensity bombs detonated inside the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya, India early on Sunday morning, leaving one Burmese monk and one Nepalese monk injured. One of the most-visited pilgrimage sites for…

By Alex Caring-Lobel

Jul 08, 2013

News

Is Bodh Gaya being threatened?

A disturbing development, via Sify.com Concerned at the looming Maoist threat in the region, authorities beefed up security around a revered Buddhist temple in Bihar’s Bodhgaya town. Hundreds of security officials, armed with latest gadgets…

By Tricycle

Jan 19, 2011

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature

Where the Buddha Woke Up

Chaos and Enlightenment in Bodhgaya

By Noa Jones

Summer 2010

IdeasMagazine | On Location

The Bodhi Tree Express

Big changes are in the air in Bodh Gaya, sacred site of the Buddha's enlightenment.

By Robert Pryor

Spring 2003

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