Mandala is the Sanskrit word for circle or whole world ... This is a simplified version of a Tibetan Chenrezig mandala, which represents great compassion. This is only one of many kinds of ...

Kevin Vose studies the transmission of Sanskrit Buddhist philosophical traditions from India to Tibet and the formation of Tibetan Buddhist scholastic traditions. He is the author of Resurrecting ...

Janet Gyatso (Harvard University) and Kurtis Schaeffer (University of Virginia) will dialogue about the study of Buddhist poetry and song (Tibetan and Sanskrit) in recent years; Lama Jabb (Oxford ...

region, where it was influenced by Sanskrit and later, the Tibetan and Burmese languages due to geographical proximity. Assamese was formally recognized during the Ahom dynasty, and by the 17th ...