MIDDLETOWN -- Prayers, blessings and a group of 50 or more expectant followers welcomed a collection of Buddhism's most sacred texts to the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center Sunday morning. In a human ...

In a warehouse off San Pablo Avenue, stacks of silk-wrapped bundles reach nearly to the ceiling. Wrapped in scarves of red, yellow and saffron – traditional colors in Tibetan Buddhism – sacred texts ...

GURAT, France, March 11 (UPI) -- German researchers have completed a 30-year project microfilming 175,000 endangered manuscripts of some of the most precious Buddhist texts, a Hamburg scholar told ...

ROSEMEAD – In a plain, white-walled room in the belly of the University of the West, Miroj Shakya breathes new life into sacred Buddhist texts that much of the world thought were lost. There are three ...

Mile Shangsheng Jing dates back to AD 927 and is the second-earliest surviving printed document found in China. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Three sacred Buddhist texts are now on display in ...

TORONTO _ The volumes resemble barrel slats _ about 3 feet long and 6 inches wide. The paper, edges rounded, looks like the skimpiest gossamer but is surprisingly sturdy, even silky to the touch. The ...

https://doi.org/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.73.1.0009 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.73.1.0009 Copy URL Bryan Lowe was the winner of the ...

More than 250 sacred books, scrolls and scriptures, including selections from over 100 newly digitized texts, are currently on view on the British Library’s new website. “Discovering Sacred Texts” ...

He estimates that about one-third of the ancient books being cataloged in the national list are damaged. But he says it doesn't mean that they all need being repaired right away. Li Jining, a ...