The first time I saw a body in an open casket, I almost laughed out loud. I was a senior in high school, but it wasn’t my first experience with death. Both of my dad’s parents and his sister passed ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...

One day in October 1965, poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Philip Whalen performed a ritual walk around Mount Tamalpais, following the Buddhist meditation practice of walking clockwise around a ...

The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...

Often, when we think of death, we think of diseases such as cancer, or more sudden forms of death such as accidents or heart attacks, and of course we think of COVID-19. All of the world’s religious ...

When parents lose a child, there are rituals to mark their grief — holding funerals, sitting shiva, bringing casseroles. But when that loss happens before birth, it often isn't marked. Sometimes, it's ...