Earlier this month, a massive earthquake struck Tibet and severely damaged numerous monasteries and nunneries. Recent media articles since then have highlighted other ongoing threats to Tibetan ...

Buddhism was introduced to China from India approximately in the first century A.D., becoming increasingly popular and the most influential religion in China after the fourth century. Tibetan ...

Tibetan Buddhism is animist, so there is no limit to the number of demons in existence, but the most important demons conquered by the Buddhas have complex mythologies. 1. Yama: The Demon of Death ...

Each major religion in China has its own national ... Moinba, Tu and Yugur, to Tibetan Buddhism (also known as Lamaism), and the Dai, Blang and Deang to Hinayana or Southern Buddhism.

it includes Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. also uses images to teach about life after death. The Wheel of Existence shows the different realms Buddhists can be reborn into. Belief in life after death ...

In meditation, Buddhists imagine the Buddha as a way of understanding Buddhist teachings. Tibetan Buddhists often use visualisation in meditation with the aim of imagining the Buddha so that they ...

aiming to restrict Tibetan cultural expression and replace Tibetan Buddhist practices with state-controlled versions of religion. This includes the forced relocation of monks from monasteries ...

Renée Ford completed her PhD at Rice University with a specialization in Tibetan Buddhism emphasizing sūtric and tantric meditation practices of the rNying ma tradition. Her other research interests ...

The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he ...