(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life. (The ...

Have you confused karma with dharma? Amida with Gautama? The Five Desires with the Eightfold Path? Then Ronald Epstein's Buddhism A to Z can provide a little enlightenment. Geared for English-speaking ...

Hey, I'm looking for some recomendations on some Taoist / Buddhist texts. Right now I'm looking at Tao Te Ching (specifically the translation by D.C. Lau and Ellen M. Chen).<br><br>I've got a border's ...

Scholars believe it to be the world’s largest treasury of ancient Buddhist texts. The sheer immensity of the collection held in the National Library of Mongolia has prevented a proper tally to date.

The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has published a book entitled — Dharini Sangraha — transliterated by Nashik-based Trirashmi Research Institute of Buddhism and Indic Languages (Tribils) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan Buddhist nuns offering prayers in Kathmandu. Prakash/Mathema /AFP via Getty Images Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often ...

Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often portray him sitting alone under the bodhi tree, his body emaciated from fasting. Some depictions show the Buddha’s right hand pointing down, asking the earth ...