I teach Buddhist meditation retreats for people of color, social justice activists, and women in various parts of the United States, and I'm based as a teacher in Oakland, California. I'm part of a ...

I was watching a video introducing Buddhism from overseas and noticed something that bothered me a little. In a video titled ...

(The Conversation) — I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their day-to-day lives. The participants – Buddhist ...

Over the New Year break, hundreds of thousands of Thais, mainly women, take time to attend prayer and meditation retreats in Buddhist temples across the country. Prayer halls descend into anticipatory ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Introduction: ENCOUNTERS AT A MULTIDENOMINATIONAL TEMPLE IN THE SOUTH ...

When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama and others, Buddhism can seem far ...

Buddhism was attractive in this context as a diplomatic tool way to indicate that Japan had joined the Sinosphere. By becoming a Buddhist country like China, the country’s leaders believed, Japan ...