Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

By halting the Sotheby’s auction of rare Piprawah Gems, sacred Buddhist relics excavated in 1898 in Uttar Pradesh, India is ...

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 ...

You could say that my formal association with Buddhism began when I was invited to participate in a weeklong discussion in Dharamsala, India, with the Dalai Lama and a handful of scientists and ...

Evans is a writer and recent graduate from San Diego State University who is working as an executive assistant at the Dharma Bum Temple in University Heights, and lives in the College Area. The ...

I am surprised that you could allow an essay as historically flawed as this to be published ("Why is Ram misogynist, but not the Buddha?"). As a scholar working on Buddhist objects and lived histories ...

"What we think, we become." "What we think, we become." Creative individuals think and will their way into becoming musicians, creating bands of the loud variety that we classify as metal. Within this ...