At first glance, they seem miles apart, yet when you slow down and really listen, Christianity and Buddhism start sounding ...

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 ...

A former monk who was also Uma Thurman’s father, he made sure Buddhism retained its intellectual and spiritual rigor as it spread through the West.

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

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 ...

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek art style?

Buddhism has a growing visibility in mainstream Australia. Tibetan prayer flags fly from many porches across the inner-city, Bunning's Warehouse sells Buddha statues and water-features and Big W sells ...

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...

The year 2022 marks the 800th anniversary of Nichiren’s birth. Numerous events have been held to mark the occasion; many new books and articles have been published and major exhibitions held. On a ...

Lee, 38 years old, a salaried worker living in an apartment in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, recently removed a Spanish-made ...