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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Sara McClintock talks about “dharmic omniscience” in the arguments of 8th-century Madhyamaka scholars and the varied forms truth can take...
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies 2026 Lekha newsletter is now available on our website. 
Rafal Felbur talks about the surviving Chinese and Tibetan versions of the 'Sūrata-sūtra'...

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