Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan Buddhist nuns offering prayers in Kathmandu. Prakash/Mathema /AFP via Getty Images Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often ...

Scholars and translators of Buddhist texts in the Tibetan language will meet at the University of Colorado Boulder next fall to discuss strategies to convey not only the literal meaning but also the ...

Changyin’s reinterpretation of worms as cells reflects other ways for women to think about the blood of menstruation and childbirth. The negative views of female bodies expressed in the “Blood Bowl ...

Malaysia's Sunyatee International Foundation is making strides in restoring ancient Indian sutras, translating texts like the ...

Scholars believe it to be the world’s largest treasury of ancient Buddhist texts. The sheer immensity of the collection held in the National Library of Mongolia has prevented a proper tally to date.

Hey, I'm looking for some recomendations on some Taoist / Buddhist texts. Right now I'm looking at Tao Te Ching (specifically the translation by D.C. Lau and Ellen M. Chen).<br><br>I've got a border's ...

For more than a century, three tiny Buddhist scrolls have sat tightly coiled in the collection of a German museum, their contents unknown. Now, thanks to cutting-edge technology, researchers have ...

(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life. (The ...