Attendees gather for a group photo during a groundbreaking ceremony for the $15 million Dharma Center on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in San Jose’s Japantown. The center will house a preschool, Sunday ...

Rooted in the Buddhist teaching of the bardo − states of ‘in-between’ − the text offers a way to understand death, life and transformation as deeply intertwined.

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

Buddhism has a long history in America. In the 1800s, Chinese migrants working in the gold rush and building railroads brought their Buddhist beliefs and practices with them. Today, ...

The Supreme Administrative Court yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that the 2,500-rai Phutthamonthon Park in Nakhon Pathom constitutes religious property rather than state land subject to ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a Buddha or as a patron of Buddhists.

Every Lunar New Year for the past 14 years, a Southern California Buddhist temple has displayed what it calls the “10,000 Buddha Relics.” According to temple leaders, this display includes ...

Some 800 km East of Bhutan is the city of Varanasi in India. In the 2566 th year of the Buddhist era, human beings – members of the species Homo sapiens sapiens – total some eight billion individuals ...

Have you heard about the walking monks? The 19 Buddhist monks from Theravada Buddhist monasteries around the globe who left the Hương Đạo Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on foot on Oct.

In late October, a group of 19 Buddhist monks left Fort Worth, Texas, beginning a hike that would last 108 days and cross seven states, attracting millions of online fans and the adoption of a dog ...

February 12, 2026: Nearly two dozen Theravada Buddhist Monks march up Bladen Street in Annapolis after being invited to the State House by Lt. Governor Aruna Miller. The monks have been walking for ...

A group of Buddhist monks who have been walking across the country for peace since October arrived in Washington, DC on Tuesday, Feb. 10, one of their last stops in a 2,300-mile journey. The men have ...