Join Andrew Holecek, author and interdisciplinary scholar-practitioner in Tibetan Buddhism, to explore how our relationship with death shapes the way we live: why we fear it, what that fear can reveal ...

Ninth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan famously told his disciples, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” Upon first hearing these words, I was instantly intrigued. I pictured a ...

Andrea Miller: You suffered from anxiety when you were young. What caused your anxiety, and how did you overcome it? Mingyur Rinpoche: I grew up in the Himalayas, a wonderful environment with fresh ...

One of the great Buddhist teachers of our time, Thich Nhat Hanh died today at Tu Hieu Pagoda in Vietnam, the Buddhist temple where he was ordained at age sixteen. Following his stroke in 2014, he had ...

Buddhism had a significant influence on Steve Jobs. Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli explain that Jobs’ 1974 trip to India sparked an interest in Buddhism that stayed with him for the rest of his life ...

Resmaa Menakem, author of “My Grandmother’s Hands” (left) and Pamela Ayo Yetunde, co-editor of “Black and Buddhist” (right). Photo (right) by Miriam Phields. In his book, My Grandmother’s Hands, ...

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Melvin McLeod: Sonia, tell us a bit about writing The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia. Sonia Faleiro: It is ...

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle.” I watched the 2018 documentary film about his life, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, for the first time only recently. I was moved ...

Not long after eating what would be his last meal, signs of food poisoning began to show as the octogenarian Buddha slowly journeyed towards the groves of Kushinagar accompanied by his disciples.

For a long time, in my daily life and on Chan and Zen retreats, I had absolutely no clue what I was repeating when chanting Buddhism’s famous Heart Sutra — it was just words without any correlation to ...

Five Cosmogenic Elements. Tibet; ca. 15th century, pigment on cloth. Rubin Museum of Art. F1998.16.5.2 (HAR 68878). Certain Buddhist meditation practices are meant to alter the gravitational field of ...

Speech is powerful. Our words shape our minds, paving the path toward freedom or cementing habitual patterns of suffering. A crucial part of our practice, speech is something we can engage with even ...