Smartphone apps, social media, and artificial intelligence are all making religion more accessible. Is it enough to slow ...

A fixture in Fort Worth since the early 2000s, Huong Dao is hemmed in by industrial lots and a rail line. The compound’s ...

Prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholar, Geshe Rachung Gendun was released from Chinese custody after serving three and a half years in prison, reported Tibet.net. However, his health severely deteriorated ...

A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last ...

Thus a new religion was born. This Buddhist faith flourished for a few centuries in India until through certain circumstances it became practically extinct in the land of its birth. Meantime ...

Teaching religion in school has been at the forefront of Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters' newly announced social studies standards. Many know of his plan to bring Bibles into Oklahoma ...

In 2022, governments and/or social actors harassed religious groups in 192 countries and territories out of the 198 analyzed ...

This series was co-written by Kaitlyn Ugoretz, scholar of Japanese religion and new media.

Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in ...

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States springs up unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard just off a ...

The Tufts University Chaplaincy has hired Ven. Vineetha Mahayaye as its new Buddhist Chaplain, a role focused on supporting ...

How ancient merchants, missionaries, monks and artists paved a ‘Golden Road’ that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific ...