The Great King Ashoka's relentless quest for the revered relic - "The Ashes of the Buddha" - marked the genesis of his ...

Vajrayana, Mahayana, and Theravada are the most practiced forms of Buddhism today but there were a lot of changes within the ...

In short, the five precepts are more than ancient rules; they’re practical, everyday strategies for living with integrity, ...

In opting for AI avatars, we may undermine what Buddhism would consider to be critical moments for genuine transformation and ...

In a story in the Buddhist canon, a grief-stricken mother named Kisa Gautami loses her only child and carries the body around ...

As a practitioner on the Buddhist path, I am called to relieve and transform suffering in myself and in the larger community, ...

Teacher and former Buddhist monk Stephen Batchelor traces surprising parallels between two revolutionary thought leaders and ...

A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for ...

W hen teaching “ Buddhism and v iolence ”, I usually start by asking students to rank religious groups in the order of how many followers each has in the Army. Typically, Christians are at the ...

Johnston started attending weekly meditation sessions and longer retreats at the Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, a remodeled church in Northeast Portland. That’s where she met fellow seekers from ...

The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama's ...