According to the Pew Research Center, about one-quarter of countries worldwide exhibit “high” or “very high” levels of social hostilities involving religion, including violent religion-related attacks ...

In October, 19 Buddhist monks departed on a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" from Texas to Washington, D.C., and last weekend they passed through Raleigh.

A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle. After ...

Korean shamanism predates Buddhism and Confucianism, yet it continues to shape Korean spirituality today. Shamans act as ...

In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...

(The Conversation) — In a story in the Buddhist canon, a grief-stricken mother named Kisa Gautami loses her only child and carries the body around town, searching for some way to resurrect the child.

People often ask how I arrived at my yoga practice—what led me here, what influenced the way I teach, and why my approach ...

An ancient religion brought by Chinese immigrant railroad workers and variations of Buddhism bought by Japanese settlers and later from South East Asian refugees has shaped American Buddhism.