We make sense of life in a way that provides us with familiarity and control. Buddhist psychology offers us insight into six ...

When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three ...

It’s the south Asian island country that has long been a byword for serenity (at least when it comes to high-end tourism).

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For Ryushun Kusanagi, Buddhism is more than a religion, as it can serve as a philosophy of life to cope with modern daily life. On the other side of the screen appears a Buddhist monk. He appears in ...

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and ...

A cultural center in the U.S. state demonstrates how the authority of Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of ...

Alexandra Alter, who covers publishing industry news and writes Books features for The Times, is always on the hunt for the next Harry Potter.

Who is your primary audience? I always intended this to be for a universal audience. I call myself a spiritual mutt, growing up with my Buddhist mother, my Jewish father, in a Christian setting, with ...

The $100 million FireAid benefit concert has responded to backlash with a new audit report, yet fire victims are still ...

I’ve recently become friends with a woman who is an evangelical Christian. I am not religious myself but have studied Buddhism for a time and hold firmly that one should not overtly try to convert ...

Introduction : gendered materialization of Guanyin -- Dancing Guanyin : the transformative body and Buddhist courtesans -- Painting Guanyin with brush and ink : negotiating Confucianism and Buddhism - ...