Source: Amazon By Sharon Salzberg Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience […]
Source: NPR By Terry Gross Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out […]
Source: NPR BY TERRY GROSS Are human beings hard-wired to be perpetually dissatisfied? Author Robert Wright, who teaches about the interface of evolutionary biology and religion, thinks so. Wright points out that […]
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HSUTAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist demonstrators on Wednesday protested the arrival of the U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar for an information-gathering trip in […]
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Source: The Wall Street Journal By Corinne Ramey The first Buddhist chaplain in the New York City correction department tries helping jail staff at Rikers Island by transporting them to […]
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Source: Reuters By Sunil Kataria | TAWANG, INDIA Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Saturday the Tibetan people should decide if they wanted to continue with his institution, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Julia Lovell In the spring of last year, Xi Jinping – China’s paramount leader – presided over a national conference on religion. He seized the opportunity […]
Source: The Teaching Company Confucius. Buddha. Jesus. Muhammad. Four extraordinary sages who influenced world civilization more deeply than any other human beings in history. As just one measure of their […]
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University […]
Source: Reuters By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat | BANGKOK Thailand’s king has appointed a new Buddhist supreme patriarch, the prime minister said on Tuesday, ending more than a year […]
The Story of God With Morgan Freeman Season 2 Episode 1 The Chosen One The Story of God with Morgan Freeman will take viewers on a trip around the world […]
Source: Yahoo News Bangkok (AFP) – Thailand’s military government on Thursday granted the king power to appoint the Buddhist country’s top monk, a move aimed at resolving a bitter power […]
Source: The Guardian A court in Myanmar has sentenced a Dutch citizen to three months in prison for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier broadcasting a late-night […]
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore MUMBAI, India (RNS) Next month, Kanti Sarvaiya will abandon his Hindu heritage and become a Buddhist. “Hinduism has done nothing for us,” said Sarvaiya, 20, […]
Source: Independent By Maya Oppenheim @mayaoppenheim ‘Any person who wants to indulge in violence is no longer a genuine Buddhist or genuine Muslim,’ says Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader The Dalai Lama has […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Jalue Dorje is a 9-year-old from the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His life is filled with the typical past times of […]
Source: Aljazeera A 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been hacked to death inside a temple in Bangladesh, police said. The body of Mongsowe U Chak was found on Saturday at the […]
Source: Associated Press By NIRMALA GEORGE NEW DELHI (AP) — The bank executive, the book publisher and the social worker had one thing in common: Their hectic lives in the […]
