A Buddhist monk has been charged with beating to death the head monk of his temple. According to NBC-affiliate WTVA, Vern Phdsamay, 32, was arrest...
AP | Posted 05.10.2012
SEOUL, South Korea -- Senior monks from South Korea's largest Buddhist sect have offered to resign after the release of photos purportedly showing fel...
Jim Luce | Posted 03.11.2012
When I was asked to join a "Kalachakra" -- a circle-of-life pilgrimage to where Prince Siddhartha discovered the realities of the world under the Bodhi Tree -- I jumped at the chance.
Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 03.07.2012
As a tourist in Lhasa 24 years ago, Blake Kerr witnessed Chinese soldiers and police massacring unarmed Tibetans, inspiring him to begin documenting the underside of China's military occupation of Tibet.
AP | Posted 12.29.2011
TOKYO -- Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, pointed to what he called China's "ruthless policy" as prompting the recent deaths of Tibetan...
AP | Posted 12.16.2011
BEIJING -- A Tibet activist group says a former Buddhist monk has set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in the region. Free Tibet said the 19-y...
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.26.2011
ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press BEIJING — Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire Monday in a protest over China's tight rein over Buddhist pract...
Sylvia Boorstein | Posted 05.25.2011
On Aug. 29, four women, were declared fully ordained as Buddhist nuns in the Thai Theravada tradition. It was the first such ordination ever in the Western hemisphere.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
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Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011
After making some inquiries, my friend informed me that she had obtained permission for me to come to Thailand on a "monk's journey" for two weeks.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011
A Sudden Dawn is delicious candy with a grain of medicine at its core. If you have the slightest interest in Chinese history, and if you yourself have wrestled with some of the profound truths of Buddhism, get a copy.
James Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2011
If the totalitarian nightmare portrayed in George Orwell's 1984 strikes you as an implausible portrait of state control and repression, a single viewi...
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011
Practicing meditation means slowly and gently training the mind to do something it may not have done before: to be still.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
Profits from a fundraiser will go to support the orphaned Burmese refugees housed at the Child Protection and Education Center at Mae Tao Clinic.
Posted 05.25.2011
Buddhist monks visited Emory University recently and created this gorgeous and very large mandala sculpture. The sculpture, which is made out of sand...
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
When Danish documentarian Anders Østergaard took on the challenge to make Burma VJ, he had no idea how much he would advance the cause of citizen journalism.
Posted 05.25.2011
CNN has a great report on the lengths Japanese Buddhist monks are going to attract new followers as temples close across the country. "Forget the chan...
AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...
Lisa Napoli | Posted 11.17.2011
Wednesday nights, I visit Kusala -- not your average bald, quiet monk. He is a large, friendly, open man, a forceful presence, and he leads us in a discussion of Starsky and Hutch.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
In the tradition of a cliche genre of jokes, the forthcoming Turkish game show, Penitents Compete, will pit a Greek Orthodox priest, an imam, a rabbi ...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011
15 years since bringing us the critically acclaimed documentary Hoop Dreams, Frederick Marx is again giving us the opportunity to study how people sacrifice in order to gain.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on ...
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 05.25.2011
10. Jews feel the financial and image pain of Wall Streeter Bernie Madoff as his money lies damage Yeshiva University and Elie Weisel as well as sma...
The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.14.2012