While visiting the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee chairman and Politburo Standing Committee Member Yu Zhengsheng called on ...

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and ...

VIDEO: 5,000 years of religious history in two minutes. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world.

People are more likely to say religious texts should take precedence over the will of the people if the two conflict. Many say religious texts already have a great deal or a fair amount of influence ...

Clearly, traditional systems of religious thought and observance are losing influence in our culture. Buddhism offers these four as the highest, noblest attitudes toward all beings: loving ...

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Theravada Buddhism is the dominant religious system in several parts of South and Southeast Asia, but there is a rich diversity of beliefs and practices in this tradition.

Instead, the 8-year-old is now at the heart of a struggle between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese Communist Party. He was just a toddler when everything changed.