You’ve probably heard someone sigh and say, “Well, life is suffering”. The phrase floats through conversations and ...

The soul’s eternal life is a cornerstone belief of many religions, not only Christianity and Islam but also Hinduism. Yet Buddhism teaches the very opposite: the impermanence of everything, including ...

Some people view Buddhism as pessimism. They call it the “religion of misery,” because the word “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness,” which the Buddha taught in his first four noble truths, sticks in ...

KALISPELL - There are the stares. The double takes. And the occasional "nice dress." But for the most part, Gen Kelsang Wangden finds that as a Buddhist monk in Kalispell, his unique way of dress ...

Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Mark Epstein visited the Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, The Trauma of Everyday Life. Epstein talks about how he found Buddhism, and the links between ...

In the theater of American public apologies, it’s common for celebrities to invoke their faith. Disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods did it Friday, in fact, with a twist. He cited the role of Buddhism ...

The 81-year-old singer — who has spoken about the domestic violence she suffered at the hands of her late ex-husband Ike Turner — is thankful she was introduced to the religion when she was going ...

It appears on your right as you go around the temple, and you wonder at once if that is the tree: an ancient-looking, sprawling tree with a massive trunk and a zone of deep, hypnotizing shade at its ...

We tend to struggle with how to think about dying: What really happens? How will it feel? Is there something beyond? Shamar Rinpoche was officially the 14th Shamarpa, or Red Hat Lama, of Tibet, on a ...