(The Conversation) — A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real. My curiosity about the authenticity of ...

Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that evolution ...

In early September, Tibetan monks carefully poured grains of colored sand onto a wooden table inside Slough Farm’s barn, transforming the space into a place of ritual, stillness, and attention. The ...

North Americans have heard much about “mindfulness” practice, and much of it is only indirectly derived from historical Buddhist practices. This talk introduces a quite different style of historical ...

Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

Sally Rossow of The Woodlands is part of a Zen Mind Buddhist Sangha study group that meets on the first and third Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. at the Northwoods Universalist Unitarian Church, located at ...

In the five years that Alex Boianghu, a Tibetan Buddhist, has lived in Danbury, he has seen the Buddhist community grow, a reflection of the growth of Buddhism everywhere. "It's really growing ...

Thai men can be ordained from a few days to the rest of their lives. Pakin Songmor/Moment via Getty Images The new season of “The White Lotus” is set on a luxury resort on the Thai island of Koh Samui ...

Changyin’s reinterpretation of worms as cells reflects other ways for women to think about the blood of menstruation and ...