(THE CONVERSATION) These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst – stressors that heighten the ...

Introduction: Orienting space and self -- Cosmos in texts: Explaining the blueness of the sky -- Cosmos in the maṇḍala: Salvation through geography -- Cosmos in offering: Piling a mountain of ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The Young Buddhist Initiative describes itself as bringing Buddhist traditions into the modern world in a way that it hopes will suit contemporary — particularly younger — lives. NEW ...

Witnessing Pope Leo XIV’s episcopal formula embraced as the third of the three characteristics of human existence in Buddhist ...

Buddhism comes from Hinduism, in somewhat the same way that Christianity derives from Judaism: the Buddha, before his enlightenment, is said to have been Hindu, just as Jesus was a Jew. And not ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

Evangelicals who discuss theology need to understand the branches. Given how hard it is to be indifferent, it’s not surprising that Buddhist expansion 2,000 years ago ran into a wall. Many people did ...

The following books were selected by Amanda P. Mason, a Buddhist ministries catalyst and clinical psychologist in Sydney, Australia. This book list encourages Christians to engage with Buddhists from ...