Exhibition of Buddhist sutras, though written in Chinese for a religion imported from India, shows how Japanese artists made them their own The Lotus Sutra (chapters 20-23) shows an unusual ...

University of Tasmania provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Some Buddhists are strictly vegetarian, and others eat meat. Both justify their positions on the basis of Buddhist texts ...

Dating between the 1st and 3rd centuries BCE, and considered the most senior Indian manuscripts, Gandharan Buddhist writings are the oldest manuscripts discovered to date. Written in Gandhari ...

Buddhism: A Journey through History” presents a rich tapestry of thematic stories that span topics such as the law, philosophy, war and governance. These narratives will surprise and engage readers ...

He explained that the earliest references to the Ramayana entered the Han cultural sphere primarily through Buddhist texts, indicating that while the entire epic was not fully integrated ...

When I met Pema, my practice formalized into Tibetan Buddhism. For seven-and-a-half years, we’ve been practicing together, meditating together, and now writing the book. I don’t think it’s ...

Buddhist texts and art traditionally depict the cyclical nature of the universe as a wheel containing six worlds. “While the upper levels are surely magnificent, it is the lurid depictions of th ...