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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A New Platform for Buddhist Diplomacy?
The world’s largest multilateral body could be a platform of a renewed Buddhist diplomacy by India and other countries
Telo Tulku Rinpoche in Pakistan: Modern Leader Greets Ancient Echoes
Telo Tulku Rinpoche’s visit to Buddhist sites in Pakistan reflects his openness and independence as a Dharma leader and teacher
The Buddha, India, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries: Sharing knowledge, culture and civilizational links
India’s presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization brings Buddhist heritage into the fold of the body’s multilateral dialogue
Maintaining a peaceful mind in a troubled world
Sajib Barua looks at how the Buddha advised on the global crises of today, from economic crises to military conflict
Indica et Mongolica: Four Relics of the Buddha in Ulaanbaatar
Today, the 14th, marks Buddha Purnima in Mongolia and a symbolic milestone in Buddhist-influenced Indo-Mongolian relations. Two days ago, Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju led a 25-member delegation to Ulaanbaatar, meeting Khamba Lama Gabju Choijamts Demberel, the most senior Buddhist leader in the country. Accompanying the delegation was a quartet of relics of the […]
Displaced Dharma: Ukraine’s Crisis of Refugee Children
There are few experiences more distressing and traumatizing than being forced to leave home, and to flee somewhere, anywhere, that may offer physical safety from war. The endless calculations involved are exhausting: whether it is worth putting loved ones in further danger, fears of if the journey can be endured, and the sense of uncertainty […]
A Buddhist Prayer for Peace in Kyiv
Shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a small group of Buddhists, affiliated with the Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga, gathered in Kyiv’s majestic Mikhailovska Square to pray for peace, chant the Lotus Sutra in the Nichiren tradition of “Namo myoho-renge-kyo,” and call for an end to Russo-Ukrainian hostilities. The Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga is a Nichiren-aligned movement founded in 1917, consisting […]
Buddhist Values and Leadership: Zoya Sandzhieva
Politics has become somewhat of a dirty word in Buddhist life. Sometimes, this is for legitimate reasons. However, if we are to be consistent, then we should welcome and support those who become statesmen with a genuine wish to benefit their people and whose vision has common ground with our Buddhist values. Zoya Sandzhieva, minister […]