‘A Stomach like an Ocean, a Mouth like the Eye of a Needle’
What hungry ghosts can teach us about the karmic repercussions of greed and stinginess
hell realms
The Undead Shamans of Bhutan
An interview with two scholars who have studied the Bhutanese deloms
The Monsters of Buddhism—Inside and Out
What the most chilling creatures in Buddhist lore and literature say about us and the world we live in.
Coming Out Buddhist
George Saunders’s first novel is irrefutably—and magnificently—Buddhist.
Hell Realms (Best of)
Move over, Dante. The cruel, gratuitously layered tortures of the Narakas, or “hell realms,” rival those of any Abrahamic tradition. Unlike the latter, though, those Buddhist hells don’t last for an eternity—some only have durations of…
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