China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...
In fast-secularising South Korea, Buddhism is regaining popularity thanks to a "hip" trend wooing Gen Z with festivals, ...
With the revered Tibetan leader over 90 years old the rivalry between New Delhi and Beijing over who speaks for the Buddhist ...
Even as the number of South Koreans who identify as Buddhist remains static, Buddhism was viewed the most favorably of four ...
From his many names to dishwasher woes, Beyond Life and Death shares things about the Chinese martial artist fans may not ...
Iris Company's immersive dance show "The Still Point" makes its Bay Area debut at SOMArts, drawing on Buddhism and T.S. Eliot ...
Robert Thurman, who has died aged 84, was regarded as the first Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; he subsequently became a leading scholar of Buddhism in America, helping to ...
Buddhism has a growing visibility in mainstream Australia. Tibetan prayer flags fly from many porches across the inner-city, Bunning's Warehouse sells Buddha statues and water-features and Big W sells ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...