China Yoga in China December 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Deutsche Bank/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Katherine Jakovich and Jeremy A. Murray. The relationship between the Chinese and Indian cultures goes…
China China’s religion problem: Why the Chinese Communist Party views religious belief as a threat October 17, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Kevin Poh/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. By John Powers. Beginning in the earliest grades, Chinese students are subjected to anti-religious propaganda. They learn that…
China China looking beyond the Dalai Lama July 30, 2019 0 Written by David Scott. Image Credit: Dalai Lama by webted/Flickr, Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. On 9 June 2019 the Global Times, the populist outlet within the People’s Daily,…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar nationalism: The monks, the military and the Muslims March 8, 2019 0 Written by Mikael Gravers. Is there a specifically Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar? True, there are many nationalist monks, but Buddhism is only one element in…
Taiwan Gender, Women and Buddhism in Taiwan March 1, 2019 0 Written by David Schak. Women have long been second-class beings in Buddhism, occupying a status well below that of males. They were said to invite disasters and to be polluted, temptresses, dull, flirtatious, vain and too flighty to…
China Chinese Artists Exploring Posthumanism Through a Buddhist lens July 5, 2018 0 Written by Rebecca Catching. William Gibson’s quip, “The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed,” makes itself profoundly obvious in a country such…
China Actively Guiding Religion under Xi Jinping June 21, 2018 1 Written by Jérôme Doyon. In April 2016, Xi Jinping chaired the National Religious Work Conference. It was the first time the CCP General Secretary chaired such…
China Playing the Long Game? The Politics of Religious Revival in China and Tibet June 15, 2018 0 Written by Martin Mills. "Religion" in China has never fitted well into European conceptions of the topic. Certainly, getting any kind of statistical handle on…
Burma/Myanmar Preaching hate and violence: The (militant) Buddhist perspective June 5, 2018 0 Written by Peter Lehr. When discussing religion and violence in Southeast Asia, the first concept that usually comes to mind is that of jihad or…
China State-managed Buddhism and Chinese-Mongolian relations June 23, 2017 6 Written by Jichang Lulu. “No matter what the 14th Dalai Lama says or does, he cannot deny the Central Government's right to recognise reincarnations,” says…
