by Heleen Murre-van den Berg Spaces These days I’m going through my books. I’ve transitioned from a heavy admin role to the regular life of an academic, with the accompanying change of offices, fro…

We are extremely sad to announce that our friend, Michael Ium, suddenly passed a… Suzanne Fernando needs your support for Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom

Let's seek to understand Buddhism better! BDK America is the U.S. branch of the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), an international organization founded in Japan. As a non-se...

by Jeffrey Sanchez I often visit my family in Texas during the sticky, hot, and humid summer months. Though it may be close to suffocatingly hot, the only place hotter (both literally and figurativ…

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…

Beginning with an overview of Buddhism, this book explores the religion's origins in northern India and Nepal, through to its development and spread across Asia…

Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused them to evacuate their homeland, Serhii and Mariia Trylis devoted the past decades of their lives to the promot...

This is a post by contributing writer, Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from the University of East Anglia and the Sainsbury Institu...