Pilgrimage

Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced to Four More Years in Prison

This brings the disposed civilian leader’s sentence to six years, so far. Plus, a 72-year-old Thai monk nears the end of a 1,500-kilometer barefoot trek, and psychotherapist Mark Epstein’s new book comes out.

Alison Spiegel and Amanda Lim Patton

Jan 14, 2022

Ideas

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.

Interview with Paolo Coluzzi by Alison Spiegel

Sep 24, 2021

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.

By The Editors

Winter 2020

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

By Eliza Rockefeller

Winter 2020

Dharma TalksMeditation

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…

By Lama Elizabeth Monson

Nov 2019

Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature

Changed by Brightness

A new father’s pilgrimage to a sacred Japanese mountain inspires a meditation on awakening, parenthood, and what we pass on.

By Sam Mowe

Fall 2019

Film Club

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…

By Hamid Sardar

Jul 2019

NewsMagazine | Buddha Buzz, Openings

Bodhi Tree in Need of TLC

The Bodhi tree, which marks the spot where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment in Bodhgaya, India, is showing signs of struggle.

By Gabriel Lefferts

Summer 2019

IdeasMagazine | Column

Ancient Tradition Gets a New Look

Matthew Gindin reviews Hyecho's Journey, which explores how major Buddhist pilgrimage sites might have appeared to an 8th-century Korean monk.

By Matthew Gindin

Summer 2018

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Lessons from a (Mostly) Good Dog: #5: Dance

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Evolving Dharma: How Practice Transforms

In this Dharma Talk, Martin Aylward will draw on his thirty years of meditation experience to consider how meditative practice evolves over the course of a life, and how to embrace, rather than resist, this path…

By Martin Aylward

Sep 2022

Pilgrimage

Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced to Four More Years in Prison

Journey to Buddhism’s Four Most Sacred Sites with the New Book Buddhism and Pilgrimage

Buddhism by the Numbers: Climate Change and Pilgrimage Sites

The Climate Threat to Buddhism’s Holy Sites

Pilgrimage Unbound

Changed by Brightness

Tibet: The Trail of Light

Bodhi Tree in Need of TLC

Ancient Tradition Gets a New Look

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