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 ...

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 ...

What if the aim of Buddhism was not nirvana—release from the cycle of rebirth—but thriving in the day-to-day grind of human life within a broader Buddhist ethical framework? In this collection of ...

WITHIN two years, or since the appearance of Mr. Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia, the world of London was amused to learn that an eminent native Hindu Buddhist had come among them to examine the field ...

Last week, we celebrated Buddha Purnima. Buddhism is seen, today, as a separate distinct religion from Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma. It wasn't always so in Buddha's time. Buddha was looked upon as one ...

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 ...

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 ...