Buddhism originated around the fifth century B.C.E. in India, but today, more Buddhists live in China than India. Han Buddhism, the dominant branch of Buddhism in China, has blended with local belief ...
The Tzu Chi Foundation and Banaras Hindu University discussed establishing a Research Centre for Buddhism to promote ...
Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, Taiwan, and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, have held a fruitful ...
A new study suggests that people with high levels of neuroticism and stress may be at greater risk for depressive symptoms, but those links could be buffered for people who observe the five precepts ...
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu ...
(RNS) — Buddhist-oriented mental health practitioners are an assorted bunch. Some are hardcore meditators fully devoted to their dharma path. Others rarely formally meditate and do not identify as ...
In her late 30s, struggling to balance a busy corporate marketing career with raising a family, Linda Strauss felt herself yearning for more. She found it in a Zen Buddhist monastery in upstate New ...