The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Buddhist text in Europe and the United States ...

The Potala Palace Management Office created an experimental restoration team for palm-leaf manuscripts in 2019, and its main ...

Sikyong Penpa Tsering visited the Kham Kathok Tibetan Settlement, emphasizing unity and cultural preservation. Highlighting ...

When the Dalai Lama turns 90 in July, the Buddhist monk, who for many exiled Tibetans personifies dreams of a free homeland, ...

On the occasion of World Heritage day, manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra have been inscribed in ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a mandala sand painting May 6 through 10 in the Copernicus Room of the New Castle Public Library.

No matter what we do, no matter how we try, life changes—and that was the theme of the dismantling of the sand mandala, by ...

In a remote monastery masked warriors resurrect a Vajrayana epic, where every arrow’s strike is a prayer, and a skeptic finds ...

He graduated in 2001 from China’s national-level college for Tibetan Buddhist lamas and held a prestigious position in the county-level People’s Congress, where he was a deputy head of the ...

By his death, he had mastered 34 languages, including Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Pali, Prakrit, Tibetan, Chinese ... De’s engagement with Buddhist texts further showcased his versatility. He produced ...

Mingmar, who could have sought revenge, chose not to, since Buddhism ... sacred spirit of the mountain. Scholar Hannah Taub states that, in Mongolia, within the context of shamanism and Tibetan ...

The origin of the chant was a group of Tibetan monks who sat facing a small ... “The mandala means the perfect world of Buddhism,” said Jongbok Yi, a professor of philosophy and religion ...