Making that return trip to the Land of the Rising Sun a couple of weeks ago, we just could not strike out Kyoto on our ...

In a context when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been emphasizing how Buddha’s teachings could offer solutions to greatest challenges confronting the modern world, a book on Buddha which is set to ...

Introduction -- The Material of Religion -- From the Buddha to Ashoka: c. 600-200 BCE -- The Sangha and the Laity: c. 200 BCE-200 CE -- The Beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha Images, and Monastic ...

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. A special transmission outside the ...

They believe there is no higher being than oneself, and the man they recognize as their spiritual leader walked the Earth 500 years before Jesus. There were times in the United States when these ...

Researchers at Fudan University carefully extracted DNA from Li Dan's tooth. It highlights the long-standing cultural ...

The history of Buddhism and of psychedelics in American culture follow a surprisingly similar trajectory from the 1950s through the present-day. But perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise, given ...