Buddhist writers made significant or even earliest known contributions to several areas of Sanskrit literature, including court epic, mixed prose and verse, drama, and anthology. Did Buddhist scholars make any intervention in the Sanskrit theory of aesthetics? This talk will turn to the aesthetics of disgust as a point of departure. It will be shown […]
During the times of the Tibetan empire, the earliest records that catalogued Buddhist scriptures, predominantly translated from Sanskrit to Tibetan, played a crucial role in preserving and classifying many of the texts currently found in the Tibetan Buddhist canons. The empire’s adoptation of Buddhism was inseparable from the project of religious conversion and the bureaucratic […]
The Jokhang temple in Lhasa is home to the Jowo Shakyamuni statue. Together, the temple and the image embody the most sacred site of Buddhism in Tibet and the divine nature of the seat of Tibet’s Buddhist government in Lhasa. “Jowo” in Tibetan—or “Juu” in Mongolian—refers specifically to the Buddha Shakyamuni. At the end of […]
Rinpoche will give a one-hour talk online for the Centre for the Study of Chan Buddhism and Human Civilization at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on January 17 at 4:00 pm Hong Kong time. YouTube Livestream English only. Please attend the talk on YouTube if you don't require interpretation. Join on Zoom: Zoom 1 […]
Zen enthralled the world throughout much of the twentieth century, and Zen studies became a major academic discipline in its wake. Interpreted through the lens of Japanese Zen and its reaction to events in the modern world, Zen studies incorporated a broad range of Zen-related movements in the Asian Buddhist world, ranging from India to […]
