In the Christian-majority Houston metro, Buddhists only make up about 2 percent of the population, according to data from the ...

In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness ...

Rows of monks clad in orange saffron robes held burning incense, an invitation to the 11th Panchen Lama, who was seated on a throne. After an hour, the Panchen Lama was taken to the debating seat to ...

Our mother’s body, according to our Buddhist custom, was to stay in place until dawn, undisturbed. My relatives took turns holding vigil beside the body upstairs.

In India, individuals skilled in Buddhist sutras (teachings), Vinaya (monastic rules), and Abhidhamma (systematic and scholastic works)—collectively known as the Tripitaka or “Triple Basket ...

Buddhist Stone Inscriptions Project has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

In his famous book Datang Xiyu Ji (Great Tang Records on the Western Regions), Tang Buddhist monk Xuanzang records his journey to India on a mission to obtain Buddhist sutras, and mentions that when ...

Cultural relic restorers repair palm-leaf manuscripts in the cultural relic restoration room at the Potala Palace on May 25, ...

Bat Nha bells and drums, a sacred Buddhist ritual symbolising “prajna” or transcendent wisdom, rang out simultaneously at ...

The percentage of the world’s Buddhists living in Asia declined slightly, while North America and Europe experienced small increases in their shares of the global Buddhist population. Countries with ...

At exactly 6 a.m. on July 1, more than 18,000 Buddhist temples across Vietnam rang three ceremonial bells and Bat Nha drums, ...