The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.

The monks journey to Washington, D.C. concluded Wednesday with the same message they've shared for the 100-plus -day journey - world peace and happiness.A mess ...

Every Lunar New Year for the past 14 years, a Southern California Buddhist temple has displayed what it calls the "10,000 Buddha Relics." ...

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank.

The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today. Of the world’s major faiths, Buddhism is often characterized as ...

Buddhism was attractive in this context as a diplomatic tool way to indicate that Japan had joined the Sinosphere. By becoming a Buddhist country like China, the country’s leaders believed, Japan ...

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.

Nonviolence is one of the basic tenets of Buddhism. But in Japan, where the religion developed without the code of conduct devised by the historical Buddha to preserve order among the community of ...

Jagatsinghpur: Heritage enthusiasts under the aegis of Jagatsinghpur Heritage Walks (JHW) set out on their 13th venture ...

After global fame and Olympic pressure, the freestyle skiing star has spoken—briefly but pointedly—about faith, ego, and learning to tune out the noise. When Gu Ailing—known internationally as Eileen ...