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Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project: The First Buddhist Nunnery in the UK
A milestone for female monasticism in Britain
Uploaded 5 Aug 2016
The Khao Phansa Festival: The “Buddhist Lent” of Thailand
A look at one of Thailand's most important religious festivals
Uploaded 29 Jul 2016
<i>Buddhistdoor View</i>: India’s Buddhist Diplomacy
PM Narendra Modi seeks to build cultural bridges in Asia
Uploaded 4 Sep 2015
An Unusual Sutra Revealed
Alan Kwan discusses the Contemplation Sutra
Uploaded 7 Aug 2015
<i>Treasures from Asia’s Oldest Museum: Buddhist Art from the Indian Museum, Kolkata</i> – Exhibition Review
Review of an art exhibit at the Asian Civilisations Museum
Uploaded 31 Jul 2015
Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Vipassana Meditation Master Munindraji
100 years since Anagarika Shri Munindra's birth
Uploaded 17 Jul 2015
<i>Buddhist Art of Myanmar</i> - Exhibition Review
Whilst many museums around the world have historically collected works of art from Myanmar, few have mounted exhibitions dedicated to the Buddhist art of that country. The pioneering show Buddhist Art
Uploaded 10 Jul 2015
<i>Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh</i> – Book Review
A new book about Buddhist landmarks in Andhra Pradesh
Uploaded 10 Jul 2015
Path of the Pilgrim: Manifesting the Spiritual
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
Uploaded 12 Mar 2014
Buddhist Rains-retreat (<i>vassavasa</i>): a courtesy of monasticism
Part one of a series about of the Buddhist Rains-retreat
Uploaded 4 Oct 2013
The amazing resurgence of woman Sanghahood in Sri Lanka
Reviving the nuns' order in Sri Lanka
Uploaded 17 Apr 2013
Part Five: Rethinking
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
Uploaded 20 Feb 2013
Part Four: New Ideas
  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,
Uploaded 4 Feb 2013
Part Three: Questions Raised
One of the curiosities of history is the lack of evidence of any image of the Buddha for approximately 400 years after his death.  The early academic consensus favored a period of defacto aniconism, a
Uploaded 15 Jan 2013
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