The speed and extent of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic revival make it one of the most
extraordinary stories of religious resurgence in post-Mao China. At the end of the 1970s …

Abstract In September 2016, the Himalayan Buddhist festival Naropa 2016 took place in the
Northwest Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. This article analyzes the spectacular …

Throughout this introductory article, I bring attention to the important distinction between the
field of Buddhist Economics and the field of Buddhism and Economics. Rather than drawing …

The literature on Tibetan Buddhism in post-Mao China presents a bifurcated history: ethnic
nationalism and (traditional) identity are foregrounded in scholarship on the revitalization of …

This article provides an overview of the changing role of dāna in contemporary Buddhism
through ethnographic research on Buddhist charities in Vietnam. I begin by briefly …

This paper analyses religious infrastructure projects of saintly and charismatic Buddhist
monks as a process of state territorialisation in conflict-affected areas of southeast Myanmar …

The paper examines the idioms of dignity and respect in addressing elderly individuals
within Buddhist monastic publics in reformed China. It analyzes the use of three common …

On a rainy summer's day in 2015, Döndrup, 1 a driver in his thirties, took me to one of the
many Tibetan Buddhist monasteries scattered through his natal region in northeast Tibet …

Rural households harvest environmental products throughout the world. Yet little is known
about the role of such products as pathways out of poverty. Here, we empirically estimate the …

A variety of social groups exist in the cultural area known in Tibetan as Amdo (covering parts
of present-day Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces in western China; see Map 1). Much …