A Q&A with Dr. Berzin and his students about the relationship between Buddhism and science, with specific examples of points that they share in common.

An overview of the basic Buddhist concepts that allowed Islam to consider Buddhists “People of the Book” – those who follow the ethical teachings of a higher authority.

Long before the Arabs brought Islam to Central Asia in the mid-seventh century CE, Buddhism had flourished there for hundreds of years. It was particularly prominent along the Silk Route, which carried trade between India and Han China, and led from both to Byzantium and to...

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.

A survey of the suppression of Buddhism in Mongolia during the communist period (1921–1990), including the destruction of the monasteries and purges of the monastics in 1936/37 and the restricted, partial reopening of one showcase temple in 1944.

A report on the situation of the Buddhist monasteries in Central Tibet and in the region of Amdo in 1994.

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.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Buddhism has been revived in the Buryat and Kalmyk Mongol regions and the Tuvinian and Altaian Turkic regions of Russia and is currently flourishing in 2023.

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

A brief picture of Buddhism in Asia and the West.