Buddhist teachings and practices have the goal of Enlightenment — a simple yet challenging claim for a religion that sometimes works with riddles, as DW's Rick Fulker learned in an exhibition on ...

Reincarnation is part of Buddhism, so no matter how slow your progress toward enlightenment, it's not wasted, Buddhists believe. The progress you make in one life gives you a better starting point in ...

When monk asks master "How may I enter in the Way," the master points to a stream and responds, "Do you hear that torrent? There you may enter." Walking in the mountains, a master asked, "Do you smell ...

Jodo Shinshu Buddhism was founded 8,000 kilometres east of Calgary more than 800 years ago. Its origins involve a radical monk, a Pure Land, and, as is true of all Buddhist schools of thought, the ...

To the casual Western inquirer, Buddhism can seem as forbidding as a silent monastery on a snowy mountainside. So much unfamiliar mythology to be digested! So much esoteric doctrine confronting the ...