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 ...

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 ...

Unduvap Full Moon Poya is very significant for Buddhists in Sri Lanka, more so for women as Arahant Sanghamitta Theri arrived ...

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 ...

I am surprised that you could allow an essay as historically flawed as this to be published ("Why is Ram misogynist, but not the Buddha?"). As a scholar working on Buddhist objects and lived histories ...

You could say that my formal association with Buddhism began when I was invited to participate in a weeklong discussion in Dharamsala, India, with the Dalai Lama and a handful of scientists and ...

WITHIN two years, or since the appearance of Mr. Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia, the world of London was amused to learn that an eminent native Hindu Buddhist had come among them to examine the field ...

"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 ...

BACKGROUND The influence of religion on demographic behaviors has been extensively studied mainly for Abrahamic religions. Although Buddhism is the worlds fourth largest religion and is dominant in ...