Evans is a writer and recent graduate from San Diego State University who is working as an executive assistant at the Dharma Bum Temple in University Heights, and lives in the College Area. The ...

VAIL – The Summit Dharma Center is presenting an eight-week-series of teachings titled Introduction to Buddhism at the Vail Chapel back-building basement beginning March 11 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Running ...

The San Jose Buddhist Church in the city’s Japantown broke ground Thursday on a massive project to replace its 70-year-old education building with a $15 million Dharma Center. A pamphlet shows a ...

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 ...

What if the aim of Buddhism was not nirvana—release from the cycle of rebirth—but thriving in the day-to-day grind of human life within a broader Buddhist ethical framework? In this collection of ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...

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 ...