Evans is a writer and recent graduate from San Diego State University who is working as an executive assistant at the Dharma Bum Temple in University Heights, and lives in the College Area. The ...

Buddha Purnima 2022: It is one of the main festivals celebrated in the Baisakh month and marks the birth anniversary of Siddhartha Gautama. He later came to be known as Lord Buddha. It is believed ...

From its beginnings in India some 2,500 years ago, Buddhism spread and became influential across a wide area of the subcontinent and Central Asia. The decision of King Ashoka, the third-century ruler ...

From the ninth century CE, two esoteric schools (Shingon and Tendai) took on a dominant role in Japanese Buddhism and laid down the foundations for almost all subsequent developments in the centuries ...

(The Conversation) — The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and ...

(RNS) — The author began practicing Buddhism while in prison, meditating daily and keeping a gratitude journal. He now aims to help other convicts as a field minister through the North Carolina Field ...