At first glance, they seem miles apart, yet when you slow down and really listen, Christianity and Buddhism start sounding ...

Robert Thurman, who has died aged 84, was regarded as the first Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; he ...

A former monk who was also Uma Thurman’s father, he made sure Buddhism retained its intellectual and spiritual rigor as it ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a crowd of ...

Robert Thurman – the prominent Buddhist scholar, father of actress Uma Thurman and grandfather of Maya Hawke – has died at 84 ...

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 ...

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek art style?

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 ...

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.

Sri Lanka, June 29 -- Following is the message from President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on the occasion of Poson Poya: ...

Siddhartha’s father ruled a small kingdom and his mother was a princess of another clan. He was born into a life of luxury. At the celebration of his birth, it was predicted that Siddhartha would ...