So many books on religion and spirituality land on my desk that deciding which ones to read is often a challenge. Today three with Buddhist themes are tempting me. by Colleen Morton Busch, tells the ...

The Robe and the Sword is not only about Buddhism or Asia. It is about how sacred ideas are reshaped by modern politics, how ...

In The Robe and the Sword, Sonia Faleiro shows how Buddhist revivalism and majoritarianism have been historically intertwined ...

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that the world faces. A United Nations report has cautioned that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are at a record high, “with no signs of ...

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 ...

PEAKS AND LAMAS—Marco Pallis—Knopf ($5). When Marco Pallis first went to India in 1933 he was mainly interested in climbing mountains. He climbed some. He also debunked the notion that Europeans can ...

(RNS) — The author began practicing Buddhism while in prison, meditating daily and keeping a gratitude journal. He now aims to help other convicts as a field minister through the North Carolina Field ...

For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...

The city is home to what's said to be the largest publisher of English-language Buddhist books in the world — although this publishing house is far from limited to only Buddhist topics. The focus: ...

Please join the University of Denver's Department of Religious Studies on Friday, April 28 for our Buddhist Book Cultures Symposium from 1:30-5:00pm in Sturm Hall 286. 1:30-3:30 Panel 1: Buddhist ...