NYUZEN, Toyama Prefecture--Buddhist priest Yoshiyuki Kondo is offering his own brand of enlightenment through a manga comic series he created after his own life took a difficult turn. Kondo, a former ...

Buddhism, venerable and ancient world religion, has lately found itself in the thick of a cutting-edge dialogue with modern science. This dialogue has included the Mind & Life conferences, where the ...

The chapter on the fifth epoch offers fascinating retrospectives from a Sinhalese perspective on the beginnings of Buddhism in Germany. Editor Winfrid Liebrich, in his retirement, voluntarily built up ...

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An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly invited several scholars to comment on the divisions and direction of Buddhism in America today: Carl Bielefeldt is professor of religious studies and co-director of the ...

Richard Gere is hoping to share the story of one of his closest friends for nearly half a century, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gere, 76, is the executive producer of Wisdom of Happiness, a ...

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.

The government plans to form a national body to address monk misconduct and online misinformation, following recent religious controversies.

When Jawaharlal Nehru govt "could not spare funds" for Ambedkar's book; when V D Savarkar said, "no reason to give more ...