Words in Infinite Sky
Mongolian poets have been exploring new techniques of late, but their work is still very much a paean to Nature, the desert and the steppes
RUTH O'CALLAGHAN
Remembering Humility in a Lao Proverb
“Wherever there's a Lao wat, there's a Lao community dedicated to preserving and practicing Buddhist precepts.”
SEE
Cambodia: Decline of Monk Morality?
Violence, drunkenness, sex… It’s not just the Vatican, similar scandals are rocking the Buddhist world, too.
SOPHEAP CHAK
A New Generation of Tibetans
Is spirituality on the decline in Tibet? “If you want to know what is really happening, you watch CCTV, and think the opposite.”
DEBBY NG
Let it Be, Let it Be...
This is the third week of January and we have all heard what this year has in store for us from many fortune-tellers of various different guises.
CHADARAT SINGHARUKSA
The Wretched Act of Animal Release
Taiwan’s annual ritual of releasing animals as a form of relieving suffering might just be achieving the opposite.
DEBBY NG
Bhutan: Weaving a Future
Nestled in the Himalayas, the Kingdom of Bhutan is one of the last unspoiled refuges of our time. It’s so beautiful, we are lulled into imagining it is God’s gift to tourists. The picturesque mountains and valleys are there to calm our senses; the ever-smiling people to populate our photographs.
ALEX AU
Talking Buddhism
Some 1,100 years after Prince Siddhartha Gautama founded a philosophy in India, two monks in China created a fissure in his teachings that still affects the hundreds of millions of Buddhists today.
LEE HAN SHIH
The Ten-Question-Quiz on Religion and Asia
How many of these questions can you get right without Wiki-pedia? Answers at the bottom.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Buddhism Divides Thailand
There is a certain political restlessness in Thailand and it is not just dissatisfied political groups taking to the streets, disrupting public order. It also has to do with the document that runs the government.
LEE HAN SHIH