Abbot Shinge Roshi from the Syracuse Zen Center held a dedication ceremony at the Japanese Meditation Garden in Chapel House ...

This is the dramatic moment a tree fell onto a Buddhist shrine at a temple in Thailand. CCTV footage shows the century-old banyan toppling onto a pavilion at the Wat Ban Mai temple in Lampang province ...

The "Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room" at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, assembled by Alice S. Kandell (all photos Melissa R. Kerin/Hyperallergic) Already a ...

Today, more than half a billion people around the world identify as Buddhists. Since the religion originated in Nepal, it has spread to be interpreted, practiced and honored in many different ways.

When I first visited Amaravati Buddhist monastery in the United Kingdom, I expected my stay to be a blissful “spa for the mind”, surrounded by birdsong and blooming gardens. Instead, I found myself ...

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Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have digitally reconstructed one of three miniature scrolls found in a Mongolian Buddhist shrine, currently housed at the Ethnological Museum in ...

Evangelicals who discuss theology need to understand the branches. Given how hard it is to be indifferent, it’s not surprising that Buddhist expansion 2,000 years ago ran into a wall. Many people did ...

The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...

Katy Perry fans have found themselves divided over a viral video of Orlando Bloom meditating and chanting in the morning. In the resurfaced clip, Orlando, who has been a practicing Buddhist since he ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM will host a Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room from June 11, 2025, on a six-year loan from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, featuring over 100 objects like thangkas, ...