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Last summer I visited Engakuji one day during a week's long stay in Kamakura. There is a decidedly refined quality to this elegant old temple secluded from the rest of [...]

In the Song period of China the Confucian scholar Wang Xinmin said, 'It is when a person goes back to gnawing at the meagre roots of vegetables that they learn [...]

Byline: William Wan LUANG PRABANG, LAOS - When Sengdao Oudomsinh heard Barack Obama was coming to town, the first thing he did was look him up online. Sengdao - an [...]

The bhikkhuni (fully-ordained Buddhist female monk) issue in Thailand can either stir up a lot of controversy or summon nothing more than a shrug. To many, it is a non-issue, [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A radical monk from Myanmar who has preached hatred toward Muslims and is the spiritual leader of a movement to boycott Muslim businesses said Sunday that [...]

XIAHE, China -- Buddhist monks in flowing burgundy robes hurried along the dirt paths of the Labrang Monastery, trying their best to ignore the scrum of Chinese tourists following their [...]

A radical Buddhist monk on Monday blamed Muslim extremists for a setting off small bomb that detonated in Myanmar just a few yards from where he was delivering a sermon, [...]

TAUNGGYI, Myanmar -- After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of [...]

As uncertainty is profoundly unappetizing to film investors, you can imagine how this documentary pitch went over: The Israeli filmmaker Nati Baratz proposed in 2002 to follow a young Tibetan […]

The cluster of temples at the heart of this dusty, traffic-clogged town are picturesque reminders of China's faded Buddhist past. On a recent day, dogs warmed themselves in the winter […]

Renunciation often brings a heightened awareness of the raw state, a condition that can be transformed by the Four Divine Abidings within the heart, according to Buddhist teachings. The Four Divine Abidings can be regarded as places within the heart where the work of transformation takes place. For example, loving-kindness or metta is a heart-space in which ill-will can be transformed. The other places are those of compassion or karuna for the transformation of sadness, empathetic joy or mudita for the transformation of jealousy, and equanimity or upekkha for the transformation of confusion.

Lama Yeshe, the abbot of the UK's biggest Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Samye Ling in Lockerbie, Scotland, is gaining popularity as a guru to the business world. Lama Yeshe tells business executives that the quality of their work and their profit margins will improve if they practise meditation. Lama Yeshe used some of the 80 minutes he was given to address 600 of Shell's top executives at their global meeting in Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1998 to teach silent meditation. Lama Yeshe argues that Buddhism can bring wisdom to capitalism and help inform its use to benefit everyone in the world.

Emboldened by recent protests in Tibet against China's rule, the Uighurs, a Turkic minority living in China's western Xinjiang province, are becoming restless as they chafe against Chinese rule and the privileged ruling Han group, thus drawing the attention of the authorities, who have already severely repressed the Tibetan demonstrations.