The Buddhas Go to Washington
The Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. features a new, three-year-long exhibition, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia.
China
The Dalai Lama’s Big Brother
Gyalo Thondup’s memoir recounts the founding of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and the CIA’s part in the Tibetan resistance.
A 1,500-Year-Old Monastery Teaches Buddhism to Chinese Millennials with Stop-Animation Shorts
Founded in 2011, Longquan Comic and Animation Group shoots its Buddhist-themed, stop-motion animation shorts in a mountain cave in Beijing’s Fenghuangling Nature Park. Longquan Monastery‘s abbot, Venerated Master Xueching, who is also Vice Chairman and…
China Asserts Control over Dalai Lama Lineage
According to the Dalai Lama’s autobiography, Mao Zedong, the founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), once characterized religion as “poison.” The modern CCP maintains official atheism to this day, but that hasn’t stopped officials from…
The Economy of Salvation
To achieve the Buddhist goal of release from karmic debt, we must annul economic debt.
Stephen Colbert: The 15th Dalai Lama?
The host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report makes a stunning announcement.
The End of the Dalai Lama?
Not exactly.
Buddha Buzz: The Face of Buddhist Terror & The Face of the Dalai Lama (in Tibet)
Buddhist-led anti-Muslim violence and persecution has received unprecedented mass-media attention in the past couple weeks. Images of Wirathu—monk-leader of the “969” movement, recognized for its hate speech and for inciting violence against Burma’s Muslims—have now graced…
Buddha Buzz: The Transsexual Monk, The Million Bottle Temple, and The Accidental Prime Minister
Only in Thailand: Sorrawee Nattee, the 2009 winner of the Thai “Miss Tiffany” transsexual beauty contest, has removed his breast implants and become a monk. That’s what I call getting the best of both worlds, since…
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