The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Won-taek Sunim resumes Gogyung column, honors Seongcheol Sunim

Today, I will speak about the venerable Won-taek Sunim, a prominent figure in Korean Buddhism known as a representative ...
The New Yorker

What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t | The New Yorker

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 ...
Psychology Today

On Buddhism as a Different Kind of "Religion"

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 ...
Nippon

Edo-Period Buddhism as Part of the Apparatus of Shogunal Control

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...
The Diplomat

When Small States Practice Buddhist Diplomacy

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand, accompanied by His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Her Majesty Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan, attended a Buddhist chanting ceremony at the ...
Timeslife on MSN

Odisha's Buddhist triangle: How Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and Lalitgiri kept Buddhism alive

The faith that disappeared from everywhere it mattered most Buddhism was born in what is now Uttar Pradesh, reached its peak ...
CNN

The android priest that’s revolutionizing Buddhism

Could an android priest re-energize interest in Buddhism? It may seem like an out there move, but a 400-year-old Japanese temple has brought in a robot named Mindar to preach sermons. The adult-sized ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Buddhism in China: An Enduring Legacy on View at the Freer

Known as the transmitter of Chan, or Zen Buddhism, the Chinese monk, Bodhidharma, was said to have a volatile temperament. Portrait of Bodhidharma. Fourteenth century, ink on silk. Courtesy the Freer ...
NPR

Buddhism, Science And The Western World

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 ...
BBC

Zen Buddhism

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 ...