Rebecca Wong looks at how the Kalachakra has been a point of politics for Eurasian empires, and how the Qing emperors harnessed its power
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The Iron Pagodas and Iron Hawks: Cataphracts of Bygone Buddhist Empires
A recently restored set of armor provides a glimpse into the martial past of Eurasian cataphracts that fought for great Buddhist empires
Prof. Vesna Wallace to be 13th MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at HKU
A veteran name in Vajrayana and Mongolian Buddhist studies returns to Hong Kong to deliver a compelling lecture series
The Elixir of Immortality: The First Emperor of China’s search into Tibet
Newly discovered epigraphic evidence proves that Qin Shihuang sent imperial agents to Tibet on a search for immortality
Starry Buddha: Searching for Primordial Gravitational Waves on the Tibetan Plateau
High up in the Tibetan plateau, China and the US search for the rippling echoes of creation through spacetime
Questions for Padmasambhava: A Question of Faith
A series of Q&A with Laurence Brahm in “Lotus-Born Master goes through the Buddhistdoor”
Meditations from the 2nd Karmapa with Charles Manson
Charles Manson is a cataloguer of the Tibetan collections of manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a scholar of Karma Pakshi, the 2nd Karmapa
The Sino-Tibetan Legacy of Unity at Xumi Fushou Temple, Chengde
Xumi Fushou Temple in the Mountain Resort of Chengde is the crucible of the Qing’s great project of Tibetan unity, and by extension, modern China’s
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