Buddhist monks in China have undergone a month-long intensive training in firefighting skills to deal with incidents of blaze in their temples, which are mostly made of wood. The event to test their ...

Between long sessions of meditation and chanting at a Zen monastery just outside Clatskanie, Buddhist-in-training Bob Posert turned his focus to the massive renewable fuels refinery planned less than ...

A mere three years after completing her residency training in 2011, surgeon Carla Haack found herself in the throes of job burnout. She had been devoting her life to the hospital, working 14-hour days ...

Eleven of the 12 Thai youth soccer players who were rescued from a cave complex this month are undergoing training to become Buddhist novices, while their coach will be ordained as a monk. They’ll ...

Kongtrul (The Intelligent Heart), a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, shows how the cultivation of tsewa (a Tibetan word for “the innate tenderness of our own heart”) can lead to increased personal happiness ...

Andy Lee has an interesting job title: He is his company's "chief mindfulness officer," and he is not employed at some voguish Silicon Valley startup or by a chain of organic-food co-ops. He works for ...