Meditation is the ultimate tool for cultivating calm and clarity. By sitting quietly and observing your thoughts without ...

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Nonviolence is one of the basic tenets of Buddhism. But in Japan, where the religion developed without the code of conduct devised by the historical Buddha to preserve order among the community of ...

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This episode exists because Buddhism is too complex to summarize cleanly — and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. Across the series, Extra History compressed 1,500 years of religious evolution, ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

Paul F. Knitter, author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian, is Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is a leading ...

Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. I had never meditated, ...

New South Wales public schools are struggling to keep up with demand for Buddhism scripture teachers. Buddhist Council of New South Wales chairman Brian White said there were more than 3,000 public ...

I have been studying the social dynamics of ancient Buddhism for decades now. This religion has irrevocably shaped the shared history and social structures of this subcontinent in ways we haven’t yet ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. Zen Buddhism is a mixture of Indian ...

Long is the cycle of birth and death to the fool who does not know the true path. After his enlightenment, the Buddha could remember his previous lives. Some of these previous lives are recorded in ...