Review of Buddhism in Sinhalese Society 1750-1900: A Study of Religious Revival And Change by Kitsiri Malagoda, Colombo, Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2023, 300pp. ISBN: 9786245529094 Sri Lankan ...
More than 45 years ago, Tibetan monks introduced Richard Gere to Buddhism, which led to his now-longtime friendship with the Dalai Lama. Now, while attending the DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute Luncheon ...
What prompted the idea for the course? I adopted this course from a colleague when I took on my assistant professor position here at University of Illinois, Chicago. Over the years, the class content ...
Colonialism was undermining the Socio-Economic basis of a Buddhist society which was the main instigator for the Buddhist Revival. To understand it, the very nature of Buddhism must be understood. The ...
A Buddhist guide to the cycle of birth, death and rebirth – and how to escape it. Download The Living with the Gods podcasts Read: Life of the Buddha – a spiritual journey Originally published by BBC ...
Wesak (or Vesak) is the annual (well not exactly annual since there is no Wesak in 2020) birthday celebration of Siddhartha Gautama, the first and best of all Buddhas who lived from the sixth to the ...