Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Children attend the Children Becoming Buddhist Monks ceremony at a Chogye temple on Friday in Seoul, South ...

If you are wondering who the Buddha was, he remains one of history’s most influential teachers, known for his insights on ...

Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama childhood--a place where the preacher hadn't done his job unless he whipped parishioners into a spiritual frenzy that left them ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A group of local residents want to bring enlightenment and harmony to the area through sacred arts ...

As we walk, Dan Zigmond pulls on a black baseball cap. The sun is high, and the trees give little shade. It's a big park---stretching across a good nine acres of grass, mulch, shrubs, and gravel paths ...

Colombo, September 10: A PEW Research Centre global survey conducted in 2016 found that Buddhists were slightly above the global average in their levels of educational attainment. This is ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...

Q: You have written about major religions. Please write about Buddhism. Reader Answer: In the last column, I wrote an overview of three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Since I am ...