Former Buddhist monk, author, meditation teacher, and coach Seth Monk announces the release of “Buddha’s Cake,” an ...
Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...
When we lose someone close to us, many of us feel grief and hold feelings of gratitude and remembrance for the deceased. We ...
I encountered flashy and charming Buddha statues at a cave temple in Ipoh, Malaysia.They were adorned in vivid colors like gold, red, and blue, and some had expressions that made me want to stare at ...
An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...
When someone leads a blessed life, Koreans often say that person must have accumulated much virtue in a previous life. From ...
When World War II ended with Japan’s unconditional surrender in August 1945, the various sects of Japanese Buddhism lost the foundation they had all shared in State Shintō, falling into a state of ...
When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama and others, Buddhism can seem far ...
SHIRASGAON, India—More than 500 low-caste Hindus filled the Veera Maidan, an open field at the edge of a dusty Maharashtra village, on a recent Sunday night. Neighbors openly gawked from porches as ...