December 21 marks World Meditation Day in the U.S. To find out how the centuries-old practice can help shape your wellbeing ...

Meditation is the ultimate tool for cultivating calm and clarity. By sitting quietly and observing your thoughts without ...

Nichiren Buddhism differs from other schools of Buddhism in focusing on this world, and in its view that it is the only correct tradition. Nichiren Buddhism is a Japanese Buddhist movement in the ...

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Paul F. Knitter, author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian, is Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is a leading ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

When World War II ended with Japan’s unconditional surrender in August 1945, the various sects of Japanese Buddhism lost the foundation they had all shared in State Shintō, falling into a state of ...

New South Wales public schools are struggling to keep up with demand for Buddhism scripture teachers. Buddhist Council of New South Wales chairman Brian White said there were more than 3,000 public ...

Over the weekend, I ran across this 2010 essay on Reason by Brendan O’Neill, who wrote about his frustration with the way Tibetan Buddhism is whitewashed in Western culture. O’Neill, by the way, is an ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. Zen Buddhism is a mixture of Indian ...

I have been studying the social dynamics of ancient Buddhism for decades now. This religion has irrevocably shaped the shared history and social structures of this subcontinent in ways we haven’t yet ...