At the heart of every major spiritual teaching is the call to love our neighbors as ourselves. Living this truth we already ...

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From the earliest movements of wandering tribes to the rise of organised kingdoms, the lands that are today India and Iran have long moved along intertwined paths.

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You’ve seen it in bookstores – the metallic turquoise spine peeking out from the shelf under “Eastern Religions.” Or, perhaps, another of its more understated editions rendered in muted tones. It is ...

Buddhism is the only major religion whose global population shrank between 2010 and 2020. Learn why it declined in East Asia, particularly in Japan and South Korea.

The global population of Buddhists shrank by roughly 5% between 2010 and 2020, the sole major religious group to decline.

Many people associate Buddhism with meditation and peaceful philosophy, but Buddhist traditions also include detailed descriptions of hell realms. Known as Naraka, these realms appear in early texts ...

Unfortunately for us, since time immemorial, before rulers had to rub our grubby hands for votes, they often claimed God spoke to them — and they had armies, so no one could call them psychotic.