Wesak (or Vesak) is the annual (well not exactly annual since there is no Wesak in 2020) birthday celebration of Siddhartha Gautama, the first and best of all Buddhas who lived from the sixth to the ...

More than 45 years ago, Tibetan monks introduced Richard Gere to Buddhism, which led to his now-longtime friendship with the Dalai Lama. Now, while attending the DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute Luncheon ...

Buddhism is renowned for its profound insights into ageing and decay, known as jara in Pali. Through its teachings and ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Recently, I participated in a meditation retreat led by a ...

For the fourth week in a row, a white ex-Catholic Buddhist sits down to teach us about humility. We, a group of six or seven teenagers, roll our eyes at each other. It’s 2013, and we’ve just left the ...

Dharma teacher Frank Jude Boccio, a born and bred New Yorker, didn’t expect to like Tucson. The city changed his mind. The punk-rock-writer-turned-Zen Buddhist does miss a few things about New York ...

On the fourth Sunday of every month Venerable Suco Hue Huong, the Buddhist nun who anchors Buu Hung Buddhist Monastery in east Vancouver, offers a no-nonsense lecture about life, death and the human ...

Happiness is something we all chase, yet it often feels fleeting – here one moment, gone the next. But what if the key to lasting happiness lies in ancient Buddhist teachings, refined over centuries?

What prompted the idea for the course? I adopted this course from a colleague when I took on my assistant professor position here at University of Illinois, Chicago. Over the years, the class content ...