The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and practices are grounded in ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — New York Zendo Shobo-ji was quiet on a Saturday morning in late June, far removed from the muted hum and chatter that lingers in Lenox Hill, in Upper Manhattan, even on rainy summer ...

LANSING, KAN. — Lama Chuck Stanford began visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas six years ago. "Then word got around that I was doing this," Stanford says, "and I started getting calls ...

Our Buddhist Club is growing every year, and has especially strong student leadership who regularly provide our broader community with opportunities for meditation (generally held at the Center for ...

Life is challenging, but there are ways you can lighten your load and take control of some outcomes. Shunmyo Masuno, a Zen Buddhist monk devotes an entire section of his book, "How to Let Things Go," ...

The Yale Buddhist Sangha, under the auspices of the Yale Chaplain’s Office, is Yale’s flagship organization for Buddhist life. Its stated aim is to provide the Yale community with an opportunity to ...

You'd be forgiven if, driving past Dawn Mountain, you thought it was a creatively named architecture firm. Though it's housed in a neat brick building on busy Richmond Avenue near South Shepherd, it's ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a new Buddhist Circuit scheme for six Northeastern states in the Union Budget 2026-27. This initiative aims to develop a planned network of Buddhist ...

(RNS) — The emergence of Buddhist-oriented hospices in the U.S. and elsewhere is said to show a dissatisfaction with conventional Western views of life and death. BERLIN (RNS) — The man, a local baker ...