buddhism

Bedrock of Buddhism

Restoring Itumbaha also saves the Valley’s intangible monastic heritage

Kunda Dixit

The good doctor

My first home in Kathmandu was a glass A-frame house nestled in a lychee and mango orchard, sheltered by a magnificent old...

Lisa Choegyal

An anchor to Cambodia’s past

The National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh is a vast complex. The red buildings with oblique roofs curve upwards at the...

Ashish Dhakal

On nature and human nature

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche teaches us the art of understanding ourselves through wisdom, compassion and balance

Being good is not easy

Even eleven years after it was first published, The Difficulty of Being Good by Indian author Gurcharan Das is more relevant than ever. Two-thousand...

Being good is not easy

Even eleven years after it was first published, The Difficulty of Being Good by Indian author Gurcharan Das is more relevant than ever. Two-thousand...

Where Siddhartha Gautam walked

Kapilvastu-Tilaurakot is 2,700 years old, and is the most well preserved archaeological site in South Asia

Hindu gods in Bangkok’s malls

At the corner of Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok’s noisy and traffic-clogged commercial centre, the Erawan Shrine offers a peaceful refuge for busy...

The Hindu gods of Buddhist Thailand

Visitors from Nepal and India at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport are surprised to see a 15m long depiction of Hindu gods and demons...

Tengboche abbott’s last wish

Anxiety caused by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the collapse of a tourism-dependent economy appears to have deeply worried the...