A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.

Johnston started attending weekly meditation sessions and longer retreats at the Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, a remodeled church in Northeast Portland. That’s where she met fellow seekers from ...

Buddhism initially came to America with Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the late 1800s, but Westerners began to take interest in practicing Buddhism themselves in the 1950s and ’60s.

Emergent Dharma’ will offer essays from 11 Asian American women writers who confront the whitewashed, patriarchal and ...

As a practitioner on the Buddhist path, I am called to relieve and transform suffering in myself and in the larger community, ...

Not just in Buddhism, but worldwide, why have women been so neglected and overlooked for millennia?” said Palmo. About 100 nuns live and study at her Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery in India.

India has recovered a set of relics linked to early Buddhism more than a century after they were removed from the country ...

Buddhism is very anti-essentialism, and essentialism includes seeing essence of groups, which is what racism is. If you view all Trump supporters as bigots or idiots, I think that’s a big mistake.