CLATSKANIE, Ore. (RNS) It’s Friday night at Great Vow Zen Monastery. Supper’s over and Noble Silence, the quiet that stretches from bedtime through breakfast, is still two hours away. Two dozen people ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 28, 2018 / Professor Jun Hong Lu JP, the founder of the Buddhist practice "Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door" and Chairman of both the World's Parliament of Religions ...

Smith Buonanno 106 lay in meditative silence on Friday afternoon as a Zen master named Bob, clad in dark blue robes and beige Birkenstocks, entered the auditorium to introduce the small crowd of about ...

Jalue Dorje, 14, says his morning prayers, Tuesday, July 20, 2021, in Columbia Heights, Minn. When he was an infant, Jalue, now 14, was identified as the eighth reincarnation of the lama Terchen ...

Things did not go entirely to plan for Buddhist monk Master Huiyen when she visited the Longshan Shanjue Temple in central Taiwan last week. The Zen master had been invited for a blessing ceremony at ...

Vietnamese monk-turned-peace-activist Thich Nhat Hanh, a hugely influential Buddhist credited with bringing mindfulness to the West, has died aged 95. The Zen master, whose reach within Buddhism is ...

Shaped like hearts, flowers and colorful crystalline beads, the remains of 37 cremated Buddhist masters are said to inspire and heal those who view them. South Floridians will get a chance to see the ...

He established a modern brand of Buddhism in Taiwan and opened temples around the world, becoming the rare religious figure backed by Beijing. By Tiffany May The Venerable Master Hsing Yun, a Buddhist ...