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 ...

Cat Stevens’ ‘Buddha and the Chocolate Box’ became his fourth consecutive Top 3 LP on both sides of the Atlantic. That last-named album had marked a departure for the London-born singer ...

but later Mahayana Buddhism introduced the compassionate ideal of the Bodhisattva. Similarly, in the Jewish Tanakh (Old Testament), God is portrayed as stern, forbidding, and distant, whereas in ...

Hercules with a lion-skin was the protector deity of Demetrius I and “served as an artistic model for Vajrapani, a protector of the Buddha,” as claimed in Religions and the Silk Road, by Foltz. In ...

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 ...

The Jetavana, where the Buddha delivered his sermons, was purchased by a generous merchant named Anathapindika, who continued to support the Buddhist establishment even after falling into poverty. His ...

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