You can’t learn to play tennis by holding a racket for a few minutes every few months. With meditation, the effort is aimed at developing not a physical skill but an inner enrichment. In extreme cases ...

Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama childhood--a place where the preacher hadn't done his job unless he whipped parishioners into a spiritual frenzy that left them ...

MOLINE -- Use a "living" text to study Buddhism. The Venerable Somnieng Hoeurn, a visiting Theravadian monk from Cambodia, will give a free public lecture from 7 to 8:30 tonight in Theater Room 306 in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A group of local residents want to bring enlightenment and harmony to the area through sacred arts ...

A pulsating cosmopolis of 10 million, Bangkok at times seems like the most unlikely Buddhist city on earth, despite the glittering spires of its famed shrines and temples. It’s tempting to view the ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...

Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, here on Thursday said Tibetans can't resort to violence to banish Chinese out of Tibet and should learn to coexist peacefully while preserving their identity ...