History of Buddhism

As of 1995, there were no books on Buddhism in the colloquial Mongolian language, hardly anyone who could make such translations and no money to print such books, even if they were made. Thus, young people and intellectuals were being drawn to Christianity, which they now...

Shantideva was born in the eighth century as the son of the king of a land in the Bengal region of East India. When he was about to ascend to the throne, he had a dream of Manjushri, who said, “The throne is not for you.” Heeding Manjushri’s advice, he renounced the throne and...

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama invokes the spiritual masters of the Nalanda tradition.

A report on the situation of the Buddhism in 1990 in the Buryat, Kalmyk and Tuva Republics of the USSR.

The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE) was the first Arab empire in the Middle East. It was the first Muslim empire to interact with Buddhists in parts of Central Asia and the western regions of the Indian subcontinent.

During the later Abbasid period (840–1258 CE), Islam slowly spread to West and East Turkistan and took a strong foothold on the Indian subcontinent.

A report on the history and the situation of the Buddhist monasteries in 1994 in Inner Mongolia and among the Mongols of Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang.

Over the centuries after Buddha’s death, the Buddhist monastic communities splintered into 18 groups. Monastic universities such as Nalanda were established, the Mahayana teachings and tenet systems emerged and, eventually, tantra was taught as well.