Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Montana, is the oldest living man in the US. He just turned 112. (Women live longer, as we all know; Gertrude Baines, an African American woman, is 114.) One hundred ...

We are happy to announce that the Discovering Buddhism Series will be starting again. This course (taught by our senior nun, Venerable Drimay, with 10 years of experience teaching these topics) ...

Mental health issues often lead to loss of equanimity. The Buddha was a mind specialist as can be seen from the change in the mental health of some of his followers in the Sravaka Sangha. The story ...

Buddhism never used a sword for its spread, not in the sense of the conquest of the world by Columbus and his followers, and Abrahamic religions down the centuries. There is no Sword of Buddhism.

In recent years, exchanges between Buddhism and western science have grown “from a trickle to a flood,” says Jamie Hubbard, professor of religion and Yehan Numata Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at Smith ...

The history of Buddhism and of psychedelics in American culture follow a surprisingly similar trajectory from the 1950s through the present-day. But perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise, given ...

The Buddha Mind Monastery in Oklahoma City will be offering weekly classes in Beginning Zen Meditation and Buddhism starting January 9, 2014. According to officials with the Monastery, the class ...

Several decades ago, the term ‘mindfulness’ used to imply Eastern mysticism related to the spiritual journey of a person, originated by Gautama Buddha. Buddhists believe that being ‘well, happy, and ...