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

A road trip through Sikkim reveals how prayer flags, meditation caves and mountain monasteries weave Buddhism into the ...

It's 50 years since Buddhist teachers started arriving in the west in the early 60s and Buddhism crash-landed into the counterculture. So what have we learned about western Buddhism? 1. It's not all ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and ...

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.

Nichiren Buddhism differs from other schools of Buddhism in focusing on this world, and in its view that it is the only correct tradition. Nichiren Buddhism is a Japanese Buddhist movement in the ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...