(RNS) — Recently, a group of more than 30 Buddhists and Christians gathered to form relationships and discuss ways to collaborate as part of the National Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. Hosted at ...

Reading David Lott’s article about the late Douglas John Hall brought forth a flood of memories and deep gratitude (“A theologian without a school of thought,” September). When I enrolled at McGill ...

The one Buddhist word many people know is karma. Some say it means good things happen to good people and bad to bad. Payback. Destiny. What goes around comes around. Maybe, but in Buddhism everyone is ...

This is the second article in the Engaging Buddhism series which explores different facets of Buddhism and how Christians can engage with and minister to Buddhists. Justin Timberlake would respond ...

Members of an inter-religious team from Cambodia, which recently toured Europe and met Pope Francis, say their six-day trip helped them understand differences between cultures and to seek ways to ...

Janice and I are sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying our morning coffee. Silently, we gaze out the sliding-door windows on this late summer morning. I notice the hazy sky. I think it is probably ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay is a reflection on a 2017 American Academy of Religion (AAR) panel of the Society of Buddhist-Christian Studies on the topic of ...

Fasting is the process of not eating or drinking for an extended period. While possibly looked at as starving oneself, fasting provides many spiritual, physical and mental benefits when done for the ...

At the ceremony, I was given the name Dvesatya (pronounced Dvay-SUHT-yuh). My teacher, Shinkyu Brian Coté, explained: “In Sanskrit, dve is ‘two.’ Satya is ‘truth, reality, things as they are.’ ...

Buddhism has traditionally focused on epistemological and psychological causes of suffering in individuals: deluded perception, greed, and ill will. Buddhist compassionate action seeks to free people ...