Rebecca Wong speaks with an Explorer of the Millennium about his discovery of a hidden land in Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorge
Sustaining an ancient spiritual tradition in the 21st century
Rendering scriptures for the future of the Buddhadharma
Sources in Lhasa report main temple undamaged…
Yumbu Lhakhang due to reopen to the public in April
9th century artifact dated to the Tibetan empire
First English-language account of this exciting discovery!
In 1895, a British army officer published a book titled The Buddhism of Tibet: Or Lamaism, with Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in its
A senior abbot at the famous Larung Gar Buddhist Academy said that government action to reduce the institution’s monastic population is nearing completion.
A government spokesman for Sertar County in Sichuan Province denied media reports that Larung Gar Buddhist Academy is being demolished by state workers.
State authorities in Sichuan have reportedly called a halt to demolition work at Larung Gar and suspended the expulsion of monastics as winter deepens.
To many practitioners of the Mahayana schools of Buddhism of East Asia and the esoteric traditions of the Himalayas and Japan, bodhisattvas, or “enlightenment beings,”
