Her research focuses on Chinese Buddhist history, particularly the Chan school and Buddhist-Confucian interactions. Her monograph, The Power of Patriarchs: Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism, ...
In a context when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been emphasizing how Buddha’s teachings could offer solutions to greatest challenges confronting the modern world, a book on Buddha which is ...
His parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled Tibet in the 1960s after China’s occupation in the late 1950s. Born in 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rigdol came to the United States in the late 1990s to ...
“His work complements and helps contextualise the historical material that forms the majority of the exhibition. The piece, like all of Rigdol’s work, approaches Buddhism in multipronged ways and ...