If you pick up an article on the use of therapeutic mindfulness practices or Buddhist meditation in psychotherapy, you are almost certain to find that article begin by introducing such activities as a ...

I finally read David McMahan’s book, The Making of Buddhist Modernism, over this last week or so. I have pretty mixed feelings about the book, and the few scholars I’ve discussed the book with have ...

You could say that my formal association with Buddhism began when I was invited to participate in a weeklong discussion in Dharamsala, India, with the Dalai Lama and a handful of scientists and ...

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 ...

These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst – stressors that heighten the risk for long-term ...

Sri Lanka’s Buddhist civilisational heritage Sri Lanka possesses an extraordinary Buddhist heritage extending over more than 2,300 years, forming part of a Buddhist tradition that spans approximately ...

Let’s begin by returning to our passage from the Epistle of St. James: What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My previous post describes a week-long silent ...

Curious to know what people were wondering about Hindus and Hinduism, I went to Google and entered some prompts. For example, I typed “How Does Hinduism” and then paused to see what questions would ...