NYUZEN, Toyama Prefecture--Buddhist priest Yoshiyuki Kondo is offering his own brand of enlightenment through a manga comic series he created after his own life took a difficult turn. Kondo, a former ...

Buddhism, venerable and ancient world religion, has lately found itself in the thick of a cutting-edge dialogue with modern science. This dialogue has included the Mind & Life conferences, where the ...

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 ...

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly invited several scholars to comment on the divisions and direction of Buddhism in America today: Carl Bielefeldt is professor of religious studies and co-director of the ...

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Richard Gere is hoping to share the story of one of his closest friends for nearly half a century, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gere, 76, is the executive producer of Wisdom of Happiness, a ...

The chapter on the fifth epoch offers fascinating retrospectives from a Sinhalese perspective on the beginnings of Buddhism in Germany. Editor Winfrid Liebrich, in his retirement, voluntarily built up ...

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.

Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...

When Jawaharlal Nehru govt "could not spare funds" for Ambedkar's book; when V D Savarkar said, "no reason to give more ...

The government plans to form a national body to address monk misconduct and online misinformation, following recent religious controversies.