China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...

Buddhism does not center on a creator god, but that doesn’t make it atheist in the modern sense. The Buddha avoided ...

Mindfulness meditation has become increasingly popular in the United States and around the world in recent decades. Apps such ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

One of the Buddha’s most-loved stories (he had a lot of them), concerned a event in which a number of blind men investigated an elephant. The occasion was famously described by the 19th century ...

Buddhism has a growing visibility in mainstream Australia. Tibetan prayer flags fly from many porches across the inner-city, Bunning's Warehouse sells Buddha statues and water-features and Big W sells ...

A BRITISH man born on the Isle of Wight has made history as the world’s most senior foreign-born Buddhist monk. Shaun Michael ...

When World War II ended with Japan’s unconditional surrender in August 1945, the various sects of Japanese Buddhism lost the foundation they had all shared in State Shintō, falling into a state of ...

Buddhist customs, and the regions of Chittagong and southern Arakan State are recognised as areas where Buddhism has survived ...

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 ...

In fast-secularising South Korea, Buddhism is regaining popularity thanks to a "hip" trend wooing Gen Z with festivals, fashion, robots and DJs, even as some fear for the fundamentals of the faith.