In 1935, BR Ambedkar declared that he wouldn't die a Hindu. Twenty-one years later, after decades of fighting caste discrimination and examining other religions, he embraced Buddhism along with lakhs ...

An Examination of the Human Figure of Shakyamuni in the Context of His Origins and Historical BackgroundWhen unraveling the ...

In Hinduism, Shiva is a significant deity who governs destruction and regeneration, asceticism, and dance. He is worshipped ...

(The Conversation) — I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their day-to-day lives. The participants – Buddhist ...

However, he died a mere seven weeks later, leaving unwritten the books he had planned on making the religion ‘respectable to ...

Nonviolence is one of the basic tenets of Buddhism. But in Japan, where the religion developed without the code of conduct devised by the historical Buddha to preserve order among the community of ...

When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama and others, Buddhism can seem far ...

Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland when Tibet was conquered by the Chinese. This article is a detailed look at its history and practices. Tibetan Buddhism is a religion ...

The Ven. Jinwoo, head of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, called Thursday for a Buddhism that moves beyond the temple walls and “enters into the suffering of ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...