Buddhism

OAKLAND, Calif.—Fed up with crime, rather than turning to despair, one Oakland resident remained hopeful.

An over 750 year-old realistic wooden sculpture of a Zen Buddhist monk can be seen at The Cleveland ...

Camille Kwan never thought that the head of a Buddhist religious group she has been following for almost ...

The Udumbara has been discussed in religious communities throughout the ages. Those who have seen these reputedly near-microscopic flowers ...

A Day In the Life Everyday, we wake up and we hurry to our jobs or to school. ...

NEW YORK—This time of year always reminds me of the divine. With Christ’s birthday being at the center ...

Rich with culture and brimming with history, Kyoto is often considered the heart of Japan. A stroll through ...

Reproduced from Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China The Chinese regime is training ...

Just days after New Year’s celebrations wound down around the world, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) achieved a ...

It is simple to cook, and easy to digest, and it can be made savory or sweet. The ...

The monk was pulling over his car to do obedience training with his dogs, when suddenly a man ...

Sik Chi Wai, chief monk of Po Lin Monastery and president of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, was ...

“It’s impossible for me to go to Tibet,” he said. “They’d never let in a Tibetan who was ...

Scientists have investigated a few highly publicized cases of people who claim not to eat or drink for ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th century was examined by CT scan and endoscopy ...

A mummy estimated from preliminary investigations to be about 200 years old, sitting in the lotus meditation position, ...

  My first experience in Ocean Beach, California, a suburb of the City of San Diego, felt like ...

Different ancient cultures apparently developed alchemy in similar ways, but each seemed to come up with it on ...

The probability of you being born at the time you were born to your particular parents, with your ...

When entering the mandala-like exhibition currently presented at the Asian Art Museum, worlds of history and meaning draw ...

The udumbara flower is said in Buddhist legend to bloom only once every 3,000 years, the last time ...

The idiom “True scripture is hard to acquire,” which is still widely used today in both spoken and ...

NEW YORK—We look to images of deities, in part, for spiritual comfort. We expect their sculptural and painted ...

Do Buddhist monks accumulate a substance in their bodies ordinary people do not?

Wang Lu Ri is a Buddhist artist who gave up an 8-year graduate degree in art to suffer ...

Whether you’re living in a large home or a high-rise condo, creating your home is an emotional experience.

On the evening of Saturday May 11, thousands of Korean Buddhists carried paper lanterns through the streets of ...