History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. But Buddhism ...

Over its 1,200-year history, Kyoto has nurtured a rich, spiritual culture as a religious center. 27:41 The attempts to find ways to disseminate and preserve Buddhism in tune with the times ...

One way of doing this is to chant sutras together in the shrine room or prayer hall. In Buddhism, we have a lot of holy books and the oldest is called the Tripitaka or Pali canon. I especially ...

The Open Buddhist University is a large library of free digital resources for those interested in Buddhism. The courses, books, articles, talks, and more collected here are carefully curated to ...

Daly City, Calif. : Theravāda Buddhist Society of America, 1994. Printed at Friendship Printing, Inc., Brisbane, CA, by kind permission of Young Men's Buddhist Association, Yangon, Myanmar. Copy 1 ...

Today’s Japanese Buddhism is vastly different from what the religion once was. A series exploring the history of Buddhism from its beginnings to its present state in Japan.

The yogi’s only biography was written by his disciple. An Australian scholar used the text to document his travels, revealing ...

The museum aims to reclaim 350 Buddha bronzes excavated from Nagapattinam, now dispersed across museums in India and abroad, ...

Historian Koushi Shimokawa, an expert on public customs and the history of bathing, provides insight into this unusual form of influence. According to historian Koushi Shimokawa, Buddhism strongly ...