A scholar of Tibetan Buddhism discusses how she challenges her students to rethink their preconceived notions of death, the afterlife and the concept of the ‘other.’ ...
Buddhism doesn't teach that there is a God ... it's a comfort to believe that this isn't all there is, that there is an afterlife to look forward to, and that we'll see friends and family again.
(Wikimedia Commons) Tibetan-Buddhist lore has a guide for the dying ... gum and then dropped it on the ground was compelled, in the afterlife, to plod through two-and-a-half million miles of ...
Followers of Theravada Buddhism are said to adhere most closely ... is among the numerous characters tormented in the afterlife in a boiling cauldron in hell. The image was drawn more than 10 ...
Her research focuses on Buddhist manuscripts and art, and she is especially interested in the socioreligious significance of death and the afterlife in Buddhist materials. She is also interested in ...
For example, some people believe in the concept of reincarnation but are not necessarily Buddhist ... of the traditional faiths that promise an afterlife.