December 21 marks World Meditation Day in the U.S. To find out how the centuries-old practice can help shape your wellbeing and mindset, Amber Raiken spoke to Bhante Saranapala, a Toronto-based monk and mindfulness and meditation teacher.

In a story in the Buddhist canon, a grief-stricken mother named Kisa Gautami loses her only child and carries the body around town, searching for some way to resurrect the child. When she encounters the Buddha, he asks her to collect several mustard seeds ...

Zlotnik is co-founder and CEO of Dharma Bum Temple and lives in San Diego. “This was the only religious place I felt safe” were the words shared by a transgender member of our community in March. This really me struck me and has left an indelible ...

At the forefront of this trend is 30-year-old CEO Joo Yeo-jin, who is dubbed the “idol of the Buddhist world.”

Two researchers of Buddhism studied hundreds of Buddhism-related apps and conclude that they tend to mask the symptoms of stress rather than fundamentally addressing the root problem. As it is practiced in the U.S. today, mindfulness meditation focuses on ...

Evans is a writer and recent graduate from San Diego State University who is working as an executive assistant at the Dharma Bum Temple in University Heights, and lives in the College Area. The holidays are here. Local religious and non-religious ...

The Buddha once stopped a water war between relatives by asking a simple question: What is more valuable: water or human life?Today, as fighting spreads along the Thai-Cambodian border, that same question -- now over land versus human life -- feels uncomfortably unanswered.

The Mogao Caves in the desert of northwest China tell a story of art and Buddhism that began more than 1,500 years ago. Today, Princeton scholars are playing a key role as part of an international effort to understand this story, which unfolds at the heart ...

Our stereotype of Buddhists as peacemakers is not unfounded. But Buddhism%27s march has not always been peaceful. Like Christianity and Islam%2C practitioners of Buddhism know how to do both war and peace. When we think of Buddhism we don't usually think ...

I am a great admirer of Sanitsuda Ekachai's body of work at the Bangkok Post. She writes with intelligence and compassion, especially about Buddhism. Here she makes an impassioned and cogent plea for peace which does this paper credit.