Tag: tibetan buddhism
Blood Under the Monastery: Kumbum Monastery and the Beginning of a Tibetan Buddhist Catastrophe
By Xiao Guang The sky above the Tibetan plateau stretches so wide it commands reverence. Fierce winds...
A Millennia of Karma: Princess Wencheng, Qiongba, and Tsangyang Gyatso (Part II)
Through the efforts of Princess Wencheng and others, the Rakshasi sorceress was subdued beneath the snowy...
The Headless Warrior and the Rainbow Body: Mysteries from Tibetan and Chinese Legends
In the Chinese legend Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing), there is a giant named Xing Tian...
Blinken Meets Dalai Lama Representative, Stresses Importance of US-India Ties
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with the representative of the Dalai Lama during...