China’s Buddhist culture is nuanced and subtle, with formal laypeople and non-Buddhists alike making the sangha vibrant and dynamic
Raymond Lam
The Buddhist cultural complex across Asia: Virtues make a religious person
A Pew Research Center survey of Buddhists in Asia suggests that virtuous actions are an integral part of Buddhist practice
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center’s 25th Anniversary at the Rubin Museum of Art
After 25 years of preserving and digitizing rare and endangered texts, the BDRC is looking ahead to the next quarter century
Freedom, predestination, and fate in the characters of Monkey and Lucifer
One of 2024’s biggest video games is replete with Buddhist themes while also raising existential questions about destiny and fate
Tsinghua University’s New Study of Sakya Figures, Doctrine, and Places
A collaboration between the Sakya school and Tsinghua University is ushering in “spiritual civilization” and providing a model for collaboration between temples and universities
Menander: A Basileus and Maharaja in the Milindapanha
A series on the figures that shaped Buddhism across Egypt, Greece, and India. Our final figure: King Menander of the Indo-Greek Kingdom
The British Library’s “A Silk Road Oasis” – an ambitious story of the Silk Road’s finest textual treasures
A landmark exhibit, “A Silk Road Oasis,” is showing at the British Library in London from 27 September 2024 to 23 February 2025
Pyrrho: Greek hints of the Buddha’s Awakening
A series on the figures that shaped Buddhism across Egypt, Greece, and India. Second: Pyrrho the philosopher
The Shakya Sage and the Son of Ra
A series on the figures that shaped Buddhism across Egypt, Greece, and India. First up: the Buddha and Alexander the Great
Faith and Flamenco
The “3rd World Meeting Teresian Mysticsm and Interreligious Dialogue” concluded over 27 and 28 July with a good-spirited bond of friendship