The importance of Buddhist pilgrimage as a spiritual practice

A photographic journey into remote Himalayan Buddhist communities

Consoling those who have lost a loved one and memorializing those who have passed

Enhancing communal harmony at the end of the annual rains retreat

Historic relics from the birth of Buddhism risk being lost to neglect

Measuring Buddhist time in art installations

Lillian Sum is the founding director of Sacred Earth Trust and is based in India.I first arrived in Bodhgaya in 2006. My first feelings about Buddhism’s holiest location were mixed. They ranged from a

Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage, And palmers to go seeking out strange strands, To distant shrines well known in sundry lands. And specially from every shire’s end of England they to Canterbury

He came from ArsakesHe came, his camel’s bells jingling, Eastwards from enigmatic Persian lands.   He descended from his royal throne, Sparrows twittering as his brick-red robe fell acr

Vajrayana is associated in Buddhist history and legend with the locale of Uddiyana, ruled by wise kings who first practiced tantra after being introduced to it by Shakyamuni Buddha.

If you were a traveler interested in the history of Vajrayana Buddhism, where would you go?

Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 1, October 2006. Preamble   As a third generation Catholic taught by missionaries since elementary s

This month, the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation not only hosted the International Buddhist Film Festival in the British capital but also donated £2.5 million to various institutes to

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