Soon after achieving Buddhahood, Siddhartha, now referred to as the “Sage of the Shakya Clan” (Shakyamuni), delivered his first sermon at Sarnath (near Varanasi/Benares). It was during this first ...

Riga Shakya is a PhD candidate in Sino-Tibetan history in the History-East Asia Program at Columbia University. His interests broadly span classical and contemporary Tibetan literature and the history ...