Prayer beads are an important part of Buddhist practice and ritual throughout Asia and beyond. Although they are generally regarded primarily as tools to aid
As I try to adjust to living in a world dominated by Donald Trump’s presidency and the growing realities of right-wing governments in various parts
The World Wide Web is the most powerful platform and enabler for innumerable digital technological and social innovations that can facilitate all aspects of learning,
While our senses may have become dulled by city life, two masters, Tam Po Shek and Wing Chi Ip, teach us that we can find
The Trump era is here. The past few weeks have seen the most controversial man to ever sit in the White House send the world
After a long and difficult journey across the precipices and through the blizzards of the Tian Shan mountain ranges, Xuanzang (fl. c. 602–64) finally reached
A shocking piece of news struck the world of “new and old” in the first week of 2017—AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by Google
“No other people on earth, Watson, has produced such intricate beauty in as small a space as the Valley of Katmandu. One trenchant observer has
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–91), recognized as the mind emanation of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820–92), the renowned teacher, scholar, and terton who revived Tibetan Buddhism in the 19th
One of my students killed himself this year. He was 20 years old. A friend of his came by my office to tell me the
Pristine Pure Land teacher Master Jingzong (b. 1966) once wrote about why he would not want to be born anywhere else except in China: “For all
While navigating my Dharmic path, I have had the great fortune to receive profound guidance from Chagdud Khadro, a renowned Vajrayana Buddhist teacher who also
