A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning.
Articles on Dalai Lama
Displaying 1 - 20 of 25 articles
Access to water is one reason why China sees control over Tibet as increasingly important.
Research shows how the Dalai Lama is emerging an an unlikely inspiration for individuals who share trans and Buddhist identities.
Tibetan Buddhists may face a future of duelling Dalai Lamas: one born in exile who will receive traditional religious training, the other a mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
Beijing is eager for more control over the selection of Tibetan Buddhist leaders like the Dalai Lama.
Mindfulness is everywhere in pop culture today, but that doesn’t mean people agree on what it means.
The Mahāyāna branch of Buddhism likely emerged around the first centuries A.D. and was most readily carried through the Silk Road and maritime trade routes.
Overnight, Chinese people found themselves classed as “aliens” in India, which for some was the only country they’d ever known. But worse, many were detained for up to five years.
Buddhists believe that bodhisattvas reside in heavenly realms but can also appear on Earth disguised as humans, animals or other types of beings.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically against politicians who abused their power.
On World Kindness Day, a scholar of Buddhist studies explains its idea of compassion and the diverse ways to think about and express kindness.
For Tibetan Buddhists it is important that they are in charge of the selection process for the next dalai lama, but China wants to appoint its own.
Amid trying times, the collaboration between Western science and Eastern philosophy provides numerous health benefits and a path to understanding the natural world.
The country’s national interest and human rights remain the two topics bedevilling South Africa’s foreign policy.
Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and one of the most recognizable faces of Buddhism, the Dalai Lama has turned 84 and the question of a successor is pressing – and controversial.
Meister Eckhart was a 14th-century Dominican friar, who gave sermons on the direct experience of God. His words are finding resonance among today’s spiritual seekers.
“Honesty is the best policy” is hardly a hallmark of the Trump régime, so China would have been smart to pursue a more honest, less manipulative path in its simmering trade war with the U.S.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in China to discuss a trade deal. It’s laughable for Canada to believe it can negotiate a “progressive” trade agenda with the Chinese.
Millennial Canadians are identifying themselves as spiritual, but not religious. This entails the desire to develop inner knowledge and to embody the virtues of compassion, empathy and open-heartedness.
When it comes to the global political economy, no one “talks left and walks right” more than China, a dominant player in global capitalism. South African and Chinese aspirations have much in common.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
-
Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
-
Professor of Asian History & Health Humanities, Penn State
-
Research Fellow at the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds
-
Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University
-
Professor of English, Director of Fulbright College Honors Studies, University of Arkansas
-
Lecturer in International Relations, University of Birmingham
-
Chair in Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
-
Lecturer In Buddhism Studies, The University of Melbourne
-
Centennial Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
-
Emeritus Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
-
Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Director of Religious Studies and Instructor of Philosophy, University of Memphis
-
University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
-
Senior Lecturer in English and Literary Historian, The Open University