After 25 years of preserving and digitizing rare and endangered texts, the BDRC is looking ahead to the next quarter century
The Mongolian-Gelug shadow over Tibet: Six decades of failed US-Gelug policy
Adele Tomlin offers a definitive analysis of the future of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau that contextualizes Gelug dominance of Tibetan politics in 60 years of failed US diplomacy and Sino-Gelug impasse
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
International Buddhist Confederation: A firm rejection of religious fundamentalism
International Buddhist Confederation held its 2nd International Conference for Young Buddhist Scholars on 7 August in New Delhi
Public petition launched to support the 17th Karmapa’s visit to Sikkim
A petition for the 17th Karmapa’s future unrestricted travel reveals underlying tensions and conflicts over the general situation of the Karma Kagyu
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