TOKYO (AP) — Buddhist leaders say a third of the country’s 75,000 temples are barely functioning, but a younger generation of priests is working to reverse the faith’s downward spiral. TOKYO (AP) — ...

Theravada Buddhism is strongest in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Burma (Myanmar). It is sometimes called Southern Buddhism and is one of the largest subdivisions of Buddhism. Theravada ...

Buddhism is “in,” and has been for about 2,500 years, if only for a few decades in the West. Ecology, too, is “in,” but for only about 30 years, since the first Earth Day, in April 1970. Buddhism is a ...

Last week, we celebrated Buddha Purnima. Buddhism is seen, today, as a separate distinct religion from Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma. It wasn't always so in Buddha's time. Buddha was looked upon as one ...

The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one's original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect. A special transmission outside the ...

TOKYO >> The wisdom of the Buddha may one day be in the palm of your hand, with a BuddhaBot icon on your phone nestled between the latest mobile game and a dating app.

"What we think, we become." "What we think, we become." Creative individuals think and will their way into becoming musicians, creating bands of the loud variety that we classify as metal. Within this ...