What you should know about the basics of Buddha’s life and teaching. Buddhism benefits from a superb public image in America, judging by the comments students offered during the eight years I taught a ...

On September 11, 2001, as he took the New York subway to work, Josh Korda was finally feeling optimistic. After four decades of drug and alcohol addiction, he was now six years sober. He was married ...

You’ve felt it before — that deep, aching pull in your chest telling you to walk away, forgive someone, stay silent, or simply not fight. It feels noble. It feels peaceful. It feels right. But what if ...

We often assume that our emotions are sacred — that if something feels good, right, or moral, it must be so. But the Bhagavad Gita challenges this illusion with surgical clarity. It asks a haunting ...

(The Conversation) — Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religious system in several parts of South and Southeast Asia, but there is a rich diversity of beliefs and practices in this tradition. (The ...

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 ...

In Buddhism, like most religions, there is more than one way to practice the faith. Take Nichiren Buddhism. In fact, take some time out at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and head to Reve Coffee Roasters, 200 ...