Routes pictured are based on maps from the map collection at Cornell University Library (with special thanks to Nij Tontisirin) and “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism” (2024), with additional input ...

A reporter’s essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia. By Aatish Taseer The T writer at large Aatish Taseer spent some three weeks traveling for “The Prince’s Journey” and several months reading ...

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank. A century ago, many reports alleged ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst – stressors that heighten the risk for long-term ...

Robert Wright is an award-winning science journalist who has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. He’s also authored a number of best-selling popular science books, ...