Tibet

In Search of Kailash

Posted on July 13, 2016July 12, 2016 by Chris Crews

For the past several years I have been working with a team of scholars, writers, artists and educators preparing for a month-long religious pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar in western ... Read More

Chinese Atheism and the Political Theology of Reincarnation

Posted on March 27, 2015March 26, 2015 by Chris Crews

While it may have flown under many people’s radar, a small but fascinating brouhaha took place earlier this month between the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, and Padma Choling, the Chin... Read More

A Landscape of Lived Religion in Nepal

Posted on December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 by Chris Crews

This is the first in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya I recently returned from a month of fieldwork and research in Humla, the northwestern district of Nep... Read More

Tibet and China: Dharma-centric Societies at Odds by Jai Mirchandani

Posted on November 5, 2012May 13, 2015 by State of Formation

Entrance of Buddhism into China and Tibet In the lands of both the Tibetan plateau and Chinese hinterlands, the foreign-born religion of the Dhammapada, the teachings of the Buddha, lies at the crux ... Read More