Collections of beloved tales of the Buddha's past lives

BD Dipananda on the origin of the Honey-offering Festival

Ideas for communicating Buddhism to youth

“I named the shop after my father, in a manner of speaking,” reflects Cynthia Hui. The founder and current Marketing Manager of Han Li (漢礼) watches me proudly as I admire the assorted yet remarkably u

One of the mysteries of Buddhist history is the 400-year absence of an anthropomorphic image of the Buddha.  Early scholars argued for a period of defacto aniconism, in which artisans decorated Buddhi

  Beginning in the mid-1980’s, American scholars John and Susan Huntington turned Buddhist art history on its head with claims that the first Buddha images were made shortly after the Buddha’s death,

The following story is from Ven. Wuling’s children’s book, How Will I Behave Today and the Rest of My Life. It is a touching, gentle tale about convincing one’s greatest role models – one’s parents –