Rediscovering Buddhism’s Motherland
A new and first-of-its-kind pilgrimage traces the steps of Mahaprajapati Gautami, the Buddha’s adoptive mother.
Buddhist pilgrimage
Reimagining the Path: Buddhist Séances and Oracles on a Japanese Mountain
A pilgrim to Mount Ontake reflects on the value of ritual and why certain practices have been unfairly dismissed.
New International Airport at Buddhist Pilgrimage Site in Kushinagar, India
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…
Journey to Buddhism’s Four Most Sacred Sites with the New Book Buddhism and Pilgrimage
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.
Magazine | By the Numbers, Openings
Buddhism by the Numbers: Climate Change and Pilgrimage Sites
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.
IdeasMagazine | Buddha Buzz, Openings
The Climate Threat to Buddhism’s Holy Sites
How climate change’s disproportionate impact on South Asia will affect the Buddhist pilgrimage circuit
Pilgrimage Unbound
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…
Tibet: The Trail of Light
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…
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