To Buddhists, the supreme purpose of life is to become a Buddha; their ideal is to “deliver all beings.” They advocate dispelling all private desires and distracting thoughts, doing good deeds, and ...

In the Buddhist language, Pāli, the word for human dissatisfaction and suffering is dukkha. For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire, attachment or craving. As a Buddhist ...

How does meditation generate psychological benefits, and can deep meditative experiences open new philosophical insight? In ...

A minor in Buddhist studies is an excellent adjunct to majors in such fields as religion, philosophy, American studies, anthropology, art history, Asian studies, comparative literature, East Asian ...

Vietnamese scholars, Buddhist dignitaries and followers highlighted the use of Buddhist philosophy as an approach to ethics education across the globe at a forum held in Ha Nam province on May 11.

ONGOLE: Borra Govardhan’s life reads like a journey across India’s ideological landscape — from a communist youth who once ...

The latest series of Love Island departs on Monday night, taking with it the nation's main opportunity to collectively revel in the psycho-emotional suffering of others. No judgment. I too have been ...

It’s hard to put your finger on the point when the Western stereotype of Buddhist meditation flipped. It was sometime between the 1950s, when Zen Buddhism seeped into the beat generation, and the ...

Buddhist Studies in Cambodia serves not only as religious education but as a holistic academic discipline that integrates ...