In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...

In October, 19 Buddhist monks departed on a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" from Texas to Washington, D.C., and last weekend they passed through Raleigh.

Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called ...

The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today. Of the world’s major faiths, Buddhism is often characterized as ...

Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. The monks say their aim is to promote mindfulness and healing and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The VHP leaders including Giriraj Kishore and the Union Minister, Uma Bharti, quickly jumped to the cause of defending the gods from heretics. Ms. Bharti compared the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, ...

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