A version of this story appeared in the Higher Ground newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Higher Ground delivered directly to your inbox each Sunday. Christians in Bangladesh ...
In East Asia, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s death and entrance into final enlightenment in February. But at my local Zen temple in North Carolina, the Buddha’s enlightenment is commemorated during ...
Batchelor’s Buddhism Without Beliefs (1997) described a “secular” approach to the Eastern philosophy stripped of doctrines such as karma and rebirth; how a young British monk ordained in the Tibetan ...
(RNS) — Amid a government shake-up and rising violence against minorities, an interfaith council is pushing for the country to remove Islam as the state religion. DHAKA, Bangladesh (RNS) — Amid a ...
Radical Buddhism Re “When Buddhists Go Bad” [July 1]: Hannah Beech’s article is a sobering reminder that no religion, however lofty and sublime, is immune to sectarianism if its followers do not guard ...
Radical Buddhism Re “When Buddhists Go Bad” [July 1]: Hannah Beech’s article is a sobering reminder that no religion, however lofty and sublime, is immune to sectarianism if its followers do not guard ...