The history and relevance of Japan’s most visited Buddhist temple

100 years since Anagarika Shri Munindra's birth

A seminal study on Chinese hagiographic literature

“Uprooting all confusion from your mind, Stay with me here in rest and quiet. At this very moment the fear of death is full upon you; You are thinking, ‘Safety lies on the far side of the

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“The bowl may be overturned for a lay follower endowed with (any of) eight qualities: He/she strives for the monks' material loss, strives for the monks’ detriment, strives for the monks' non-residenc