Since time immemorial, wood has been the most ancient building material. Shelters, huts, houses, churches, and other ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

China's insistence that it will identify the next Dalai Lama foreshadows the chance that followers will have to decide who ...

It is this tension between maintaining the unum amid our multiplying pluribus that is reflected in the religious skirmishes ...

But Mahayana Buddhism has become more popular by developing a social orientation. Adherents should strive to have the ...

In a powerful tribute to the spiritual legacy of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, over 500 eminent Buddhist scholars, ...

One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some ...

With the 14th Dalai Lama set to turn 90 on July 6, the world’s attention is focused on the Tibetan spiritual leader. For most ...

According to ancient Buddhist texts, there are four stages between initial awakening and full enlightenment. Here, we discuss the first.

Many American schoolchildren grow up learning that Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. But across the globe in Mongolia, just south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, a mountain holds a claim ...

Kyrgyzstan, nestled in the heart of Central Asia, boasts a rich Buddhist legacy. The city of Osh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is home to Sulaiman-Too Mountain, where Buddhist monks once meditated.