Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...
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Kushok Bakula Rinpoche: The story of Ladakh’s hero monk
Director Hindol Sengupta has documented Kushok Bakula’s legacy, including his diplomatic and spiritual achievements, in the ...
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Remembering China’s Empress Dowager Ling, a Buddhist who paved the way for future female rulers
Known as the Taghbach, this group migrated south from the Mongolian steppe and ruled a ... Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from ...
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A Beacon of Harmony: South India’s Inaugural Peace Pagoda Draws Global Celebration
Mitsutake Ikeda In a historic moment for South India, the region's first Peace Pagoda was officially inaugurated on February ...
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Bodhipath Film Festival: Tibet House director highlights good cinema as channel for mass education
Drawing a comparison of art and paintings commissioned by the Lord Buddha, 2,500 years ago, with the medium of cinema, Ven Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director of Tibet House highlighted that visual art had ...