Keyword: buddhism
Broadcast journalist Dan Harris reflects on how Buddhist meditation helped him recover from a career setback — and gave him the story of his life.
For three decades, the Chinese government has been sponsoring education for elite Tibetan middle-schoolers, but at a cost to their culture.
Ian Johnson's new book provides an in-depth look at a country struggling to find its moral center.
The 6.8-magnitude quake killed three and destroyed temples in Bagan, one of the Southeast Asian country's most important tourist areas.
A widely held belief in Kamakura era Japan of a sick and degenerating world was reinterpreted by a violent doomsday cult eight centuries later.
Asia Society Museum's Adriana Proser recounts the long, complex back story behind the upcoming exhibition "Buddhist Art of Myanmar."
Time-lapse footage captures the extraordinary process by which a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala comes into being.
Colorful prayer ribbons and medals adorn the Kek Lok Si Temple in Penang, Malaysia on July 15, 2013. (ansel.ma/Flickr)
"The thangka ... are means for the Buddhists to achieve their aim of spiritual development, and are not just material works of art,” says a noted Mumbai art conservator.
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