Buddhism does not center on a creator god, but that doesn’t make it atheist in the modern sense. The Buddha avoided ...

A devotee bathes a Buddha statue during celebrations of the Buddha's birthday in Malaysia. Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images When Siddhartha Gautama was born, he was clearly no ...

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

The two-day conference brings together Buddhist leaders, policymakers, and scholars under the theme, ‘Collective Wisdom, ...

Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

He emphasised that “every possible effort will be made to bring the 331 relic gems found at Piprahwa to the State Buddhist ...

A group of Buddhist monks entered Virginia on Wednesday, marking Day 95 of their 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C.

On Friday, the monks set out toward Apex to make a stop and participate in a ceremony with the town before heading to ...

Sonia Faleiro's new book, 'The Robe and the Sword,' explores the unsettling rise of Buddhist extremism in South Asia, ...