Like any great artwork, the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala is crafted with patience, precision and care. What makes the mandala unique, however, is how quickly it’s destroyed after being completed.
We have three tenure-track, full-time specialists in Tibet, and that’s three more faculty specializing in Tibet than you find at most universities. It’s not a huge group … but it’s an incredible ...
The 25-year-old Tibetan monk known as His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is a self-professed "Facebook stalker" who exercises using his Nintendo Wii and whose favorite Western ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation that ...
https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.37.1.04 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.37.1.04 Copy URL Motherhood is at the core of the central ...
The Chinese government has long banned the display of the Dalai Lama’s pictures in Tibet, with several incidents being ...
The Rubin Museum’s new exhibition on Tibetan Buddhism, called Awaken, is made up of 37 artworks from the 7th and 21st centuries: stone, wood, and metal sculptures, traditional Tibetan hanging scroll ...
How did a fruit farmer’s son in New York’s Hudson Valley come to be a graduate student in University of Colorado Boulder’s Religious Studies Department, studying Tibetan Buddhist texts? As an ...
Central Tibetan Administration President Penpa Tsering announced plans for a global conference to challenge China's historical claim over the 1793 \"go ...
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu ...
DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation that ...