I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their ...

At a time when human civilization is advancing far enough to begin journeys into space, interest in the teachings of 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 ...

For a long time, spiritual practice in the West was sold as a private affair—something you did on a cushion to find your own peace. The post Compassion in Action: 5 Essential Books on Engaged Buddhism ...

One of the Buddha’s most-loved stories (he had a lot of them), concerned a event in which a number of blind men investigated an elephant. The occasion was famously described by the 19th century ...

Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. I had never meditated, ...

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 ...

Buddhism is a profound philosophy and spiritual practice that explores the nature of human suffering and the roots of ...

Nonviolence is one of the basic tenets of Buddhism. But in Japan, where the religion developed without the code of conduct devised by the historical Buddha to preserve order among the community of ...

I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their day-to-day lives. The participants – Buddhist practitioners from North ...