The Great King Ashoka's relentless quest for the revered relic - "The Ashes of the Buddha" - marked the genesis of his ...

Why do people choose a particular religion? Raised Catholic, Pierrick Wattez, 49, found his path to Buddhism through the ...

Christianity reached Asia early and even gained ground in China and Japan, but it never became dominant because it faced powerful rival religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and especially Islam. Unlike ...

Author Amitav Ghosh speaks about metempsychosis—the idea of the transmigration of souls into any life form—one of the key ...

Prof. Nalin Kumar Shastri emphasized that the return of the relics speaks to Buddhism’s renewed relevance in tackling today’s ...

Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their peace walk across much of the U.S. even after two participants were injured ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland when Tibet was conquered by the Chinese. At one time it was thought that 1 in 6 Tibetan men were Buddhist monks. The best known face ...