Between Hong Kong and London: Finding a Spiritual Vocation at Home
When the renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh made his first visit to China in 1999, he brought with him a newly published Chinese...
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Guoying Stacy Zhang
Sep 7, 2021
Serving Humanity in Transition: Chinese Buddhism and Spiritual Care in the United States
Four years ago, I had an opportunity to interview the revered Chan Buddhist monastic Venerable Guan Zhen while he was pursing his...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Mar 3, 2021
The Thousand-Buddha Motif: On the Timelessness of Ancient Art
The Thousand-Buddha motif is a recurrent theme in the Buddhist art of Central Asia and China. The motif depicts a multitude of buddhas...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Jan 6, 2021
Love Carved in Stone: Appreciating Buddhist Art in a Non-Buddhist Way
At the Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, there is a limestone sculpture depicting a pair of hands holding a...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Apr 8, 2020
Human Connection: Retired Catholic Priests and a Chinese Buddhist Monk
Writing this article during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, I am drawn to wonder how this virus, one out of millions of viruses on...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Aug 1, 2019
Tibet on the Silk Road from a Curator’s Eye: An Exhibition Tour with Dr. David Pritzker
A groundbreaking exhibition, titled “Cultural Exchange Along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th–9th Century),” opened in...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Dec 28, 2018
The Development of Chinese Buddhism in the US: Interview with Venerable Chaofan
Venerable Chaofan (超煩) is the founder of American Association of Buddhist Education (美國佛教教育協會) at Fuhui Temple (福慧寺), which is situated...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Aug 20, 2018
Body and Mind in Chinese Martial Arts: A Conversation with Xu Xiangdong
What is the best state one can reach when practicing Chinese martial arts? Stillness—your body is not moving, but you are moving. Where...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Jul 23, 2018
Sky Lanterns and Walubi: My Waisak Day at Borobudur in 2018, Part 2
Although Vesak, or “Waisak” in Indonesian, is celebrated at the national level, the Buddhist community makes up just 1 per cent of the...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Jun 26, 2018
Sky Lanterns and Walubi: My Waisak Day at Borobudur in 2018, Part 1
Borobudur has always enchanted me. Dated to the eighth and ninth centuries, during the Shailendra dynasty, it is the largest Buddhist...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Mar 25, 2018
Understanding Buddhist Astrology: An Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Kotyk
Buddhism and astrology might seem to be unrelated fields. Buddhism affords a set of teachings intended to liberate us from cycles of...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Feb 22, 2018
Migrating Beliefs: Chinese Buddhism in Penang, Malaysia
Penang State in Malaysia is probably the most religiously diverse place I have ever visited. Walking around George Town, the capital city...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Jan 24, 2018
The Secularization of Pagoda Imagery in 18th Century Europe and China
The artifacts that we now categorize as “Buddhist art” were not always treated as art in their original context. Despite superb...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Nov 22, 2017
Tracing Artistic Developments from India to China: An Introduction to Zhou Mingqun’s Collection
“My goal is to build a systematic collection that illustrates how Buddhist art evolved from ancient India to China,” collector Zhou...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Nov 2, 2017
Buddhism and the Law of Attraction: Musings over a Father’s Writings to His Son in 1602
In the year of 1602, a father in China completed a text for his 16-year-old son. The father, Yuan Liaofan (袁了凡) (1533–1606), was a...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Feb 24, 2017
Life in America as a Chinese Buddhist Monastic: An Interview with Venerable Guan Zhen
In ancient Chinese literature, “the West” refers to India—the birthplace of Buddhism. Nowadays, as in most cultures across the globe, the...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Nov 25, 2016
An Illuminating Exhibition on the Transmission of Buddhist Art at the Palace Museum in Beijing
The transmission of Buddhist art from India to China is a fascinating topic. Indeed, how did pious and profound art, along with a complex...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
Feb 26, 2016
From kinnara to kalavinka: on the autonomy of image in Buddhist transmission from India to China
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. --- Shakespeare Abstract In the study of Buddhist...
Guoying Stacy Zhang
May 12, 2015
The Politics of Displaying Dunhuang
"Stacy Guoying Zhang writes about the Dunhuang artefacts that were stacked for centuries in a sealed library, undisplayed –transferred...
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