buddha sitting on a stupa in stone surrounded by pillars of stone
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No. 26 of Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India. © Christian Luczanits

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Oriane Lavolé talks about the history of treasure revealers (tertöns) from 11th-century Tibet to contemporary Nepal, how apologists for the treasure tradition (terma)…
Congratulations to Stanford alumna Adeana McNicholl (PhD '19) on her promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies of Vanderbilt University,…
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, we talk to professors, monks, nuns, and laypeople...

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