Acclaimed Chinese-language playwright and director Stan Lai converses with the Tony award-winning playwright David Henry ...

Most people assume meditation is central to Buddhism and that it means sitting quietly with an empty mind. Early Buddhism ...

Hinduism and Buddhism, transformed into the world's largest Muslim-majority nation. It explores the peaceful spread of Islam ...

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Anime has become a global phenomenon. But even though millions of people watch it, many do not realize how deeply it draws on Japanese religious traditions. In this course, students learn to look ...

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This lecture examines the life and intellectual trajectory of Shaku Sōen (1860-1919), a Japanese Zen monk who resolved to ...

It is not every day that a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks come to visit Durango. After all, Durango is a long way from the ...

The actor, who has been a practicing Buddhist since the 1970s, gave his son Homer the middle name Jigme as a nod to his faith ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

(RNS) — ‘Emergent Dharma’ will offer essays from 11 Asian American women writers who confront the whitewashed, patriarchal and model-minority myths embedded in dominant understandings of American ...

Most texts describe Buddhism as a reaction to Vedic ritualism, but they fail to discuss how Shaivism was a response to Buddhism. Vedic ritualism advocated material success through the grace of divine ...