Bhutan
At the annual events, monks perform cham, choreographed rituals that serve as enlightening visualizations and honor the influential guru who danced them.
Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters sent by Tricycle readers
This Buddhist Life: Tsewang Rinzing
Q&A with Tsewang Rinzing, president of the Bhutan Amateur Athletic Federation
Bhutan on the Brink
An interview with Dr. Karma Phuntsho, the first Bhutanese to earn a doctorate at Oxford who now works to promote social entrepreneurship among the nation’s youth.
The Happiness Metric
Bhutan’s experiment in turning principle into policy
Gross National Happiness: On the Ground in Bhutan
A Q&A with journalist Madeline Drexler
Treasury of Lives: Jangchub Tsondru
Biography and autobiography in Tibet are important sources for both education and inspiration. The authors involved in the Treasury of Lives are currently mining the primary sources to provide English-language biographies of every known religious teacher from Tibet…
Bhutan seeks to curb sexual diseases among Buddhist monks
NEW DELHI (RNS) Health officials in the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan are making condoms available at all monastic schools in a bid to stem the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV among young monks…
Treasury of Lives: Bhutan’s Nyingma Treasure Revealers
Biography and autobiography in Tibet are important sources for both education and inspiration. Tibetans have kept such meticulous records of their teachers that thousands of names are known and discussed in a wide range of biographical…
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