The Tendai lineages of Japan

Recognizing the power of Asia's intangible heritage

Learning from the past and anticipating the future, while living in the now

One of the first Western women to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition

A new paradigm for peace

Raymond Lam travels to the windswept steppes of Kalmykia to explore the history of a genuine frontier of Eurasian Buddhism.

Forgiveness as a step towards spiritual transformation

The year was 1993, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Two years had passed since the heroic city of Leningrad was rechristened Saint Petersburg, its imperial name. Vasily Repin was a stud

Editor’s note: David Brazier is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and psychotherapist. He is President at Instituto Terapia Zen Internacional in Spain and the head of the Amida Order in the United Kingdom.

The conflict between Buddhism and Communism reaches a climax

The experience of art often fulfills yearnings similar to the inspiration offered by religion. One more profound relationship between art and religion has historically been how it acts as a vehicle fo

Today on the 3rd of August, the Most Venerable Sheng Yi (聖一老和尚) passed away peacefully at 2:46am, aged 88 (according to the Western calendar. Tradition adds three years, including the additional year

Buddhism is a vast religious and philosophical organism that has breathed 2,600 years of history. It gave birth to the oldest religious institution in the world, the saṅgha. It irrup