The ruins of one of Asia’s great centres of learning still inspire travellers.
It's about me, about my life – it's about all or nothing. Rinchen Chewang, the royal astrologer of Bhutan, has just inquired as to my name and
When the causes are no more there, fanaticism will cease.
Taking on the postcolonial postmodernists and reinstating the Enlightenment
The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes
by David Gellner
OUP, New Delhi, 2001
INR 645, pp 397
While the depth of faith in Buddhism and the Dalai Lama has not changed after five decades of occupation, the adaptation and reinvention of religious expression have become key to
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. This egoless state is the attainment of Buddhahood.
Where else would one expect
It used to be said that Sri Lanka's two major religions were Buddhism and Cricket. The successes registered by Sri Lanka in international cricket, particularly the winning of
The past is not always something to be proud about. Deep down, we are all mongrels. There is always an element of shame hidden in history, and such is the
Sylvan Levi (1863-1935), the French indologist visited Kathmandu Valley – then capital of a truly forbidden kingdom at turn of century, seeking long-lost Buddhist texts that may have been preserved in
