Buddhascope

Portrait of Sodô Yokoyama, disciple of Sawaki Kôdô and a wandering monk who played the sheet-flute. You could have met him anywhere. In … Read more >

Portrait of a wise man who swapped his abbot's robes for beggars' clothes. It had been several moons now – so much so that it was hard… Read more >

Mythical founder of the famous practice of Nyoung-né, uniting fasting with prayer and recommended in times of epidemic, Guélongma Palmo is an important figure … Read more >

Sumo wrestler, Great Wave the trembling champion turned into an ocean without measure. Grande Vague's corpulence was like no other, … Read more >

The greatest ruler of the Khmer Empire was also its first Buddhist monarch, succeeding many Hindu kings. From the civilization of Angkor, we … Read more >

In 629, the monk Xuánzàng left China clandestinely to go to India. Seventeen years later, he returns triumphantly to his homeland to... Read more >

Or how to keep from making a big deal out of meditation. Tosui was very circumspect about spiritual practices, including his own. … Read more >

Or how, like the tea master Nan-Nin, to empty oneself to taste the nectar of life. The tea master... Read more >

Legends, traditions, protective functions and iconography: who are the symbolic Tibetan rulers of the cardinal spaces? The “Guardians of the directions” – called, in Sanskrit, lokapalas – … Read more >

Second part of our file devoted to the symbolic sovereigns of the cardinal spaces, with a zoom on the iconography of the guardians in the sphere of Tibetan Buddhism. … Read more >

In the XNUMXth century, when the Mongols reigned over the largest empire of all time, a Tibetan monk converted their emperor to Buddhism... Read more >