Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

In early September, Tibetan monks carefully poured grains of colored sand onto a wooden table inside Slough Farm’s barn, ...

North Americans have heard much about “mindfulness” practice, and much of it is only indirectly derived from historical Buddhist practices. This talk introduces a quite different style of historical ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real. My curiosity about the authenticity of ...

Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that evolution ...

Millions of Buddhists seeking protection and healing from the novel coronavirus are turning to traditional religious rituals. But for many people around the world Buddhism is a religion – a belief ...

In the five years that Alex Boianghu, a Tibetan Buddhist, has lived in Danbury, he has seen the Buddhist community grow, a reflection of the growth of Buddhism everywhere. "It's really growing ...

Sally Rossow of The Woodlands is part of a Zen Mind Buddhist Sangha study group that meets on the first and third Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. at the Northwoods Universalist Unitarian Church, located at ...

Thai men can be ordained from a few days to the rest of their lives. Pakin Songmor/Moment via Getty Images The new season of “The White Lotus” is set on a luxury resort on the Thai island of Koh Samui ...

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