The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for decades as a near deity ...

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

Women Awakened Stories of Contemporary Spirituality in IndiaBy Swati Chopra Publisher Harper Collins Price Rs 399Pages 328What does it mean to be a female spiritual seeker in a world dominated by men ...

Ito Jakuchu’s Colorful Realm of Living Beings, 30 scroll paintings created over a ten year period (ca. 1757-66), were donated, a year before they were finished, to the Shokokuji Zen monastery in Kyoto ...

Zen Buddhism has informed much of John Porcellino’s work. For over three decades, he has produced and self-published King-Cat Comics and Stories, a largely autobiographical mini-comic series.

In Buddhism, the cycle of suffering (dukkha) and repeated rebirth due to karma resembles the Igbo ọgbanje phenomenon. If a person accumulates negative karma, they may be reborn into a life of ...

In 1963, Alan Watts published Psychotherapy East & West, in which he argued that Eastern spiritual traditions like Buddhism should not be categorised as religions in the formal, ritualistic sense ...

To Buddhists, existence is a cycle of life, death, rebirth and suffering that they seek to escape altogether. The Wheel is divided into five or six realms, or states, into which a soul can be reborn.

Evolution of governance In Odisha, one finds the earliest Tantric mandalas (stupas arranged in circular formats) representing the spiritual realm which influenced the political realm. This design ...

U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje (right) and a member of the Minnesota Tibetan community bow and touch foreheads in a traditional Tibetan greeting at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony ...

Buddhism, founded in the late 6th century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama (the "Buddha"), is an important religion in most of the countries of Asia. Buddhism has assumed many different forms, but in each ...