I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their ...

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 ...

For Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, the 2007 attack on a minibus in southern Thailand’s Yala province – in which suspected Muslim militants shot eight Buddhists through the head in broad daylight – was ...

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 ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into the profound philosophy explaining why Buddhism claims life is suffering.

Buddhism and Stoicism have startling similarities. However, Buddhism predated Stoicism by 500 years. Did Buddhism influence Greek thought?

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Dressed in flowing gold robes, the bald female meditation teacher told us to do nothing. We were to sit silently in our plastic chairs, close our eyes, and focus on our breath. I had never meditated, ...

The most striking aspect of the 2026 Busan International Buddhism Expo was its demographic: Hundreds of people in their 20s ...

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 ...