At first glance, they seem miles apart, yet when you slow down and really listen, Christianity and Buddhism start sounding ...

Robert Thurman, who has died aged 84, was regarded as the first Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; he ...

A former monk who was also Uma Thurman’s father, he made sure Buddhism retained its intellectual and spiritual rigor as it ...

At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. Just six months earlier, thousands of ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

During the Edo period, Japanese Buddhism worked with the shogunate and enjoyed a position of influence and authority in society. But as political power shifted from the samurai class to the emperor ...

When World War II ended with Japan’s unconditional surrender in August 1945, the various sects of Japanese Buddhism lost the foundation they had all shared in State Shintō, falling into a state of ...

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek art style?

Buddhism has a growing visibility in mainstream Australia. Tibetan prayer flags fly from many porches across the inner-city, Bunning's Warehouse sells Buddha statues and water-features and Big W sells ...

The Yuezhi, these mysterious nomads, spread Buddhism far beyond their borders. An unknown historical epic that transformed ...

Lee, 38 years old, a salaried worker living in an apartment in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, recently removed a Spanish-made ...