Buddhist Worship, Rites & Ceremonies

Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practiti...

Ritual manuals are among the most common and most personal forms of Buddhist literature. Since at least the late fifth century, individual practiti...

In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Diz...

For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritu...

Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan se...