It’s the sort of claim that goes down smoothly for those with post-Christian, pluralistic sensibilities. In fact, many modern ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The ...

Buddhism is one of the largest religions in ... Rather than worshiping a god, Buddhists follow the teachings of a man who lived long ago. As a young man he was called Siddhartha Gautama.

As Thich Nhat Hanh begins in The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, “Buddha was not a god. He was a human being like you and me, and he suffered just as we do. If we go to the Buddha with our hearts open ...

Though there were many visionaries, no one seriously questioned the inequality inbuilt into dharma [religion] until Gautam Buddha’s time who preached for 45 years after attaining enlightenment. His ...

Many have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

Photo courtesy of The Island In my tribute to her last week, I noted that Sumitra Peries belonged to a generation which also ...

The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, known as Wat Pho in Thai, is a Buddhist temple complex which is most known for its gold-plated "Reclining Buddha" sculpture. The Buddha measures 151 feet long ...

Muslims, for example, already know that Christians believe Jesus is the Savior — it’s one of the clearest and most ...