“Garry told an audience, ‘Don’t worry, folks, you’re gonna feel good by comparison when I leave the stage.” That nugget comes from his fellow stand-up veteran Jim Carrey in this first look at The Zen ...

George Carlin may have despised organized religion, but the new HBO documentary about the comedian’s life and career makes it very clear he was, in fact, a very spiritual being. It’s a side of the ...

The late Garry Shandling once gave Judd Apatow a copy of “Transforming Problems into Happiness,” a book written by a Buddhist monk. “It was about how when bad things happen to you, you should rejoice ...

This is FRESH AIR. The publication of Peter Matthiessen's final novel "In Paradise" is coinciding with his obituary. He died Saturday at the age of 86. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of my ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper refutes the widely held view that the Zen school of East Asian Buddhism is a good example of the "denial of ritual" in the history ...