Buddhism does not center on a creator god, but that doesn’t make it atheist in the modern sense. The Buddha avoided ...

A devotee bathes a Buddha statue during celebrations of the Buddha's birthday in Malaysia. Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images When Siddhartha Gautama was born, he was clearly no ...

Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to enlightenment for people who can't handle the subtleties of meditation, endure long rituals, or just live especially good lives. Pure Land Buddhism offers a way to ...

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."—The Buddha Buddhism is most widely known ...

When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama and others, Buddhism can seem far ...

Like many former residents of Bangkok, I have been watching the country's slide into virtual civil war with a mixture of incredulity and tetchy disillusion. It is hard for us to think of one of the ...

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...

This page looks at the ethical issues of war from the point of view of Buddhism. Non-violence is at the heart of Buddhist thinking and behaviour. The first of the five precepts that all Buddhists ...

Questions around the why of conversions to Buddhism continue to be raised in India. The answer depends on where you stand—in a SoBo living room struggling with attachment or a village where you are ...