Ever since he was a child growing up in Duluth, Steve Hagen desired to know truth. "I wanted to know what's going on and to not be fooled. I wanted to know what was real and genuine and true," he said ...

Gen Kelsang Lhadron: We have a Sunday morning class with a 20-minute guided meditation and we give a 45-minute teaching on some aspect of Buddhist philosophy that I hope people find practical for ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

This video explains the basics of Buddhism, from its beginnings with Siddhartha Gautama to its spread across Asia and beyond. Viewers learn about core ideas like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold ...

Maguire, a monk of the Mountains and Rivers Order in New York, begins this primer with a narrative of the Buddha's life, followed by a commentary that compares Buddhism to other world religions and ...

This month’s faith feature is a look at the Buddhist religion. While its local community is much smaller than other religions we have featured, Buddhism is in fact one of the world’s largest religions ...

Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions in the west. One of the features of this religion that can help to account for its growth is that many don't consider Buddhism a religion at all. Is ...

Buddhism originated in the life, teaching, and personality of a remarkable Indian sage, Siddhartha Gautama, the son of a petty king whose capital was at Kapilavasta in northern India. The life span of ...

It is perhaps not too much of an exaggeration to say that after Michael Jerryson no one will ever look at Buddhism the same way. Others have written about Buddhist violence and warfare, of course, but ...

(The Conversation) — When Tina Turner, often dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” died at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, on May 24, 2023, at the age of 83, media headlines praised both her ...