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The new airport is part of the prime minister’s efforts to promote the country’s Buddhist heritage and encourage tourism. Plus, Myanmar’s military releases, then rearrests, prisoners, and 84000 announces a new app. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
While travel remains limited for much of the world, author Paolo Coluzzi transports the reader to Lumbini, Bodhgaya, Sarnath, and Kushinagar through his personal stories and historical context.
The percentage of population growth in Bodhgaya, the cost of a Buddhist tour on the Mahaparinirvan Express, and more data around climate change and Buddhist pilgrimage sites.
How climate change’s disproportionate impact on South Asia will affect the Buddhist pilgrimage circuit
Pilgrimage is often thought of as a transformative journey to a far away place with trials and tribulations along the way, but this doesn’t always have to be the case. Learn how Himalayan Buddhist ways of relating to sacred spaces can inform a sense of pilgrimage grounded in the routines of our everyday lives.
Itinerant Tibetan nun Ani Rigsang leaves Lhasa with a thirst for freedom from monastic tradition and Chinese surveillance, embarking on a journey across the rural landscape of eastern Tibet in search of initiation into secret tantric practices. At a hidden nunnery she finds an esoteric tradition kept alive through centuries of isolation.
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Matthew Gindin reviews Hyecho’s Journey, which explores how major Buddhist pilgrimage sites might have appeared to an 8th-century Korean monk.
Ghiora Aharoni and Arthur Liou use sculpture and video to share their personal journeys to India and Tibet.
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