September 26 to 28, 2019: The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law. Hosted by the journal Buddhism, Law & Society, this conference focuses on the many legal features of Buddhism, and ...
Mongolia is a nation of 2.4 million people. About 22,000 are Christian, a number that has doubled in the last five years. Mongolia has vigorously endorsed a democratic form of government since the ...
From 1921 until the late 1980s, Mongolia was a one-party state with close ties to the Soviet Union, and religion was violently repressed. Buddhism was the main target of the repression, being by far ...
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Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi), the founder of the Shingon school of esoteric Buddhism, is said to have carved ... is enshrined are both national treasures. Art historians have noted the resemblance ...
Abdullah Muzahhib / National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, The Art and History Collection, LTS1995.2.63.1-2 (detail) Prof. Jaś Elsner will discuss the extraordinary Buddhist stupa ...
Over-tourism at sites like China's Buddhist grottoes and under-tourism affecting Albania's Drino Valley monasteries demonstrate the varying challenges faced by cultural heritage in the tourism sector.