China is investing millions in Buddhism to expand its influence in Asia, challenging India's claim to the faith and alarming ...

With the revered Tibetan leader over 90 years old the rivalry between New Delhi and Beijing over who speaks for the Buddhist ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

Brussel: China's use of Buddhism reflects hollowing out of faith, turning temples into tourist attractions, monks into state ...

A compelling historical transformation uncovers the distinctions between early Muslim rulers, known as Sultans, and the ...

Buddhism has a growing visibility in mainstream Australia. Tibetan prayer flags fly from many porches across the inner-city, Bunning's Warehouse sells Buddha statues and water-features and Big W sells ...

One of the Buddha’s most-loved stories (he had a lot of them), concerned a event in which a number of blind men investigated an elephant. The occasion was famously described by the 19th century ...

Even as the number of South Koreans who identify as Buddhist has remained static, Buddhism was viewed the most favorably of ...

When World War II ended with Japan’s unconditional surrender in August 1945, the various sects of Japanese Buddhism lost the foundation they had all shared in State Shintō, falling into a state of ...

Nichiren Buddhism differs from other schools of Buddhism in focusing on this world, and in its view that it is the only correct tradition. Nichiren Buddhism is a Japanese Buddhist movement in the ...