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During May, Buddhists around the world celebrate Vesak and this year it falls on Friday 5 May. The term Vesak refers to the month of the Buddha’s birth. It's a time when Buddhists celebrate the birth, ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...

Mindfulness is mainstream. There are mindfulness retreats that will set you back thousands of dollars. Entire sections of libraries and bookstores are devoted to the subject. My kids learn mindfulness ...

You could say that my formal association with Buddhism began when I was invited to participate in a weeklong discussion in Dharamsala, India, with the Dalai Lama and a handful of scientists and ...

Fact versus Fiction 1. Buddhism is not a religion. It is often referred to as "the science of the mind" and is concerned with developing skills to deepen self-awareness and compassion and increase ...

The sacred holy Buddha relics from India has arrived in Bhutan. It has heightened the already spiritual and festive ...

Many Westerners before me have visited Tibet, popped into some monastery on a mountainside, and decided to stay there forever, won over by the brutally frugal existence eked out by Tibetan Buddhists.

Find peacefulness in the madness of college with Buddha's age-old teachings on concentration, balance, and inner peace.