Some people view Buddhism as pessimism. They call it the “religion of misery,” because the word “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness,” which the Buddha taught in his first four noble truths, sticks in ...

The soul’s eternal life is a cornerstone belief of many religions, not only Christianity and Islam but also Hinduism. Yet Buddhism teaches the very opposite: the impermanence of everything, including ...

This topic was previously covered here, here and here. Earlier last month, a group of students walked through a wooden door to a dimly lit room at the base of Harkness Tower. Arranged in the middle of ...

Fast forward 20 years, and not only am I a practicing Buddhist, but I also have found recovery from my mental health symptoms ...

The walls of the Buddhist churches in Stockton and Lodi rose more than a hundred years ago to serve as a haven for a community that was far away from home. The Buddhist churches were started by ...

KALISPELL - There are the stares. The double takes. And the occasional "nice dress." But for the most part, Gen Kelsang Wangden finds that as a Buddhist monk in Kalispell, his unique way of dress ...

One of the greatest twists in the recent history of nonfiction came at the end of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004). The book gave physical form to the message-board atheism of the early internet ...

The 2021 Seoul International Buddhism Expo will be held from Nov 11 to 14 at the Seoul Trade Exhibition & Convention (SETEC), the online website and through the mobile application at the same time.

We tend to struggle with how to think about dying: What really happens? How will it feel? Is there something beyond? Shamar Rinpoche was officially the 14th Shamarpa, or Red Hat Lama, of Tibet, on a ...