A milestone for female monasticism in Britain

A look at one of Thailand's most important religious festivals

PM Narendra Modi seeks to build cultural bridges in Asia

Alan Kwan discusses the Contemplation Sutra

Review of an art exhibit at the Asian Civilisations Museum

100 years since Anagarika Shri Munindra's birth

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

A new book about Buddhist landmarks in Andhra Pradesh

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

Part one of a series about of the Buddhist Rains-retreat

Reviving the nuns' order in Sri Lanka

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,

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