In August 2025, 161 Tibetan Buddhist nuns from religious institutions across India and Nepal – a record number – gathered at ...
"The rise of the tantras-the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism-changed the face of religious practice across Asia, bringing elaborate new rites that revolved around ritual, a highly ...
A new study suggests that people with high levels of neuroticism and stress may be at greater risk for depressive symptoms, but those links could be buffered for people who observe the five precepts ...
“Bodhisattva” is a key idea in Buddhism. The word is constructed from the Sanskrit root bodhi, meaning “awakening” or “enlightenment,” and sattva, meaning “being.” The core meaning of the word is “a ...
With his delighted expression, round belly, bald head and monastic robes, the “Laughing Buddha” is instantly identifiable. However, astute observers might wonder why this buddha does not look like the ...
CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 107-120 (14 pages) Scholars have presented Buddhist discourse in ...
About one-in-ten Asian American adults (11%) say their religion is Buddhism, a slight decline from 14% in 2012. A much larger share (21%) currently say that, aside from religion, they feel close to ...
A young Tibetan controversially appointed by China’s atheist Communist Party as the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism has pledged to make the religion more Chinese. Gyaltsen Norbu ...
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