Last week, while on a brief visit toKarachi, I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion on the Jataka tales of Gautama Buddha. We were looking at a short collection of 20 Jataka tales, ...

The consummate collector, Alfred Chester Beatty relied on the advice of several experts, but even so, how he managed to keep up with the development of his collection given its scope and depth is a ...

The UCSC Theater Arts Department will present Before Becoming Buddha: Jataka Tales of the Previous Lives–a collection of Buddhist stories from Southeast Asia told through music, dance, masks, dialogue ...

Stories are an integral part of our lives. We have all grown up listening to and reading stories of Lord Buddha. The universal and immersive quality of these stories make them relevant to ...

Reverend Dhammaruchi William B. Edwards is the founder of the Vipassana Buddhist Church/Center for Buddhist Development in Jefferson City. Meditation is the core teaching of the Buddha to address the ...

The Boddhisatta and his four brothers at the enchanted pavilion of music. Telapatta Jātaka, 19th century | British Library, Or 4542/A f. 53r The earliest description of the Saung comes from a temple ...

Of all the biographers enlisted to write for the successful and acclaimed Penguin Lives series, none could have faced a harder job than Karen Armstrong. It’s not just that Siddhartha Gautama — known ...

Part I Signs from the Unseen Realm and Buddhist Miracle Tales in Early Medieval China 1 -- Introduction 1 -- Wang Yan and the Making of Mingxiang ji 7 -- Miracle Tales and the Communities That ...