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 ...

Buddhist legends: Beginnings -- Sumedha meets Dipankara Buddha -- The birth of the Buddha -- Leaving home -- Enlightenment -- Angulimala the robber -- Nalagiri the elephant -- Kisa Gotami -- ...

Piyananda, or Bhante ("spiritual friend"), as he is often called, is a Theravadan Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka who came to Los Angeles almost 25 years ago and established a Buddhist center there. In ...

Ask me about the origins of the Branded Jizō of Tango Province, and I will tell you that he was once the guardian deity of the Japanese general Iwaki no Hangan Masauji of the province of Michinoku.¹ ...

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 ...

Despite the curfew imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sri Lankan Buddhists are getting ready to celebrate the Vesak festival, which commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Lord ...