One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States rises 30 feet high from the woods in Franklin Township, near Princeton. It was built a decade ago under the leadership of a Sri Lankan ...
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 ...
Writer Johan Elverskog’s book, The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia, takes a critical look at the interconnections between the rise of Buddhism and its impact on the ...