On his second trip, in 1936, Pallis still bowed politely to a few peaks; but by that time he was far more interested in Tibetan art and in the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper ...

Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball footnotes ...

Ancient India: Living Traditions, which opens at the British Museum this week, traces the evolution of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art. It explores the deepening popular need to see, interact with ...

A Mongolian boy has been named a top leader of Tibetan Buddhism. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Julian Dierkes of the University of British Columbia on the implications for Mongolian-Chinese relations.

Most of the country’s elite, including the ruling military junta, are from the Buddhist Bamar ethnic group. After Myanmar gained independence from the British in 1948, the new Buddhist ...

Ormsby and L. A. Coburn of Boise, Idaho, became Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith ...

On April 17, 1932, on behalf of the Buddhist Mission (the British Maha Bodhi Society) one G.A. Dempster wrote to the director of the Indian Museum (the Indian section of South Kensington Museum which ...

[Photo Credit: British Buddhist bhikshuni Emma Slade and Dr Tashi Zangmo, Executive Director of the Bhutan Nun’s Foundation (left to right)] ...