‘I’m a Buddhist monk — meditating every day has left me with no stress and more resilience’

December 21 marks World Meditation Day in the U.S. To find out how the centuries-old practice can help shape your wellbeing ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Appreciation or Appropriation? The Fashionable Corruption of Buddhism in the West

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 ...
Nippon

The Meiji Restoration and the Secularization of Buddhism

During the Edo period, Japanese Buddhism worked with the shogunate and enjoyed a position of influence and authority in society. But as political power shifted from the samurai class to the emperor ...
CNN

Conflict in Buddhism: ‘Violence for the sake of peace?’

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 ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Buddhist CEO drives hip Buddhism trend among South Korea's Gen Z

Generation Z calls Buddhism "hip Buddhism." To those who say "Jokrakdo Rock," Buddhism is a form of content. This year, ...
National Catholic Reporter

Double belonging: Buddhism and Christian faith

Paul F. Knitter, author of Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian, is Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He is a leading ...
BBC

Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland when Tibet was conquered by the Chinese. At one time it was thought that 1 in 6 Tibetan men were Buddhist monks. The best known face ...
The Independent

Why do we think of Buddhism as peaceful?

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The Atlantic

Converting to Buddhism as a Form of Political Protest

SHIRASGAON, India—More than 500 low-caste Hindus filled the Veera Maidan, an open field at the edge of a dusty Maharashtra village, on a recent Sunday night. Neighbors openly gawked from porches as ...
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‘The idea that Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism began in late 1800s’: Writer-historian Douglas Ober

I have been studying the social dynamics of ancient Buddhism for decades now. This religion has irrevocably shaped the shared history and social structures of this subcontinent in ways we haven’t yet ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Buddhism scripture teachers struggling to keep up with demand from state schools

New South Wales public schools are struggling to keep up with demand for Buddhism scripture teachers. Buddhist Council of New South Wales chairman Brian White said there were more than 3,000 public ...
BBC

Theravada Buddhism

Theravada Buddhism is strongest in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Burma (Myanmar). It is sometimes called Southern Buddhism and is one of the largest subdivisions of Buddhism. Theravada ...