Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

The official British contender for the foreign-language film Oscar shortlist, 'My Pure Land' is a contemporary feminist Western based on a remarkable true story. By Stephen Dalton One of Britain’s ...

Sarmad Masud’s feminist Western is the first-ever Urdu-language film submitted by Britain for the Academy Awards. By Scott Roxborough The U.K. has picked My Pure Land, an Urdu-language feature from ...

Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land comprises five sites, including the sacred Mount Kinkeisan. It features vestiges of government offices dating ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

While at their core the two movements were very different, on the surface the rise of Pure Land Buddhism in Japan bears some striking parallels to the rise of Puritanism in the West. Between the ...