The family transmission of an ancient art

The hidden wisdom of Japanese Noh

Tales of ghost warriors and salvation

The act of storytelling as a performance of interbeing

Capturing the ephemeral art of Buddhist dance

A sublime expression of the Wheel of Life and Death

Film review of Toei Animation's "Buddha 2!"

An archetypal three-way relationship between a shapeshifting girl and two monks

  In this series, Jnan explores the practice of ordination within the Theravada tradition by a close examination of the Pali Canon. His first article discusses ordination during the Bu

Editor's note: This poem was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 8, June 2008. It is a general assumption of the most scholars that the Emptiness Theory of Nāgārjuna is a kind of r

 Editor's note: This feature was first published in the now-retired Bodhi Journal, Issue 7, March 2008. Introduction The word karma, etymologically meaning “action”, is a term common to many of the an

One of the mysteries of Buddhist history is the 400-year absence of an anthropomorphic image of the Buddha.  Early scholars argued for a period of defacto aniconism, in which artisans decorated Buddhi

  Beginning in the mid-1980’s, American scholars John and Susan Huntington turned Buddhist art history on its head with claims that the first Buddha images were made shortly after the Buddha’s death,

It has been literally years since I watched a documentary and thought it was objectively good (liking it or disliking it is a subjective thing), because too often documentaries about the humanities li