A reporter’s essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia. By Aatish Taseer The T writer at large Aatish Taseer spent some ...

A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and ...

U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje walks out of a prayer hall during a series of rituals and prayers bestowed by the ...

Jalue Dorje grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis loving rap music, video games and football. After the equivalent of the first ...

Why is Buddha Purnima celebrated on a full moon day? Buddha Purnima is named after the full moon (Purnima) in the Hindu lunar month of Vaishakha, when Gautam Buddha was born. On this spiritually full ...

Hundreds of Buddhist monks and devotees from across the Himalayas gather at Dorje Drak Monastery in Shimla for five days of ...

Flower-faced man, flower path, flower grandfather, flower position, flower middle-aged man, flower play card… The word ...

Life can never be perfect. It always involves some suffering (dukkha). The cause of suffering is desire (samudaya). It is possible to end suffering (nirodha). The way to end suffering is by following ...

Remember: Buddhists believe the key focus is not where the universe came from, but how to find peace and end suffering. In "The Parable of the Arrow" the Buddha compared speculation about the origins ...

Sri Lankan authorities said 22 Buddhist monks were arrested for possession of over 110 kilograms of cannabis – illegal in the South Asian nation – at the international airport in the capital Colombo, ...

Tuan Andrew Nguyen's “The Light That Shines Through the Universe” (2026) glimmers warmly on the High Line plinth (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) Between the sea of sky-blue high-rise windows ...

The group of Buddhist monks were arrested on Saturday at the country’s main international airport after a trip to Thailand that the authorities said was a cover for narcotics trafficking. By Isabella ...