Can You Be Spiritual Without Being Religious? Ancient India Says Yes or No Many people today seek inner peace, purpose, and ...

In some fundamentalist countries, many religions have vanished and the existence of some that are left is in danger. Still, ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India ...

Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden ... beginning with the birth of Buddhism. DALRYMPLE: Today we often think of Buddhism as being a very otherworldly religion. And, you know, in ...

In a first-of-its-kind project, Bhutan’s Druk Nyo Foundation has launched an initiative seeking to rediscover and document Buddhism’s deep reverence of nature, and laying the foundation of a new ...

As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist ... which was used for early Buddhist scriptures in ...