Fact versus Fiction 1. Buddhism is not a religion. It is often referred to as "the science of the mind" and is concerned with developing skills to deepen self-awareness and compassion and increase ...

Raised with evening prayers, Martin became a vegetarian atheist before finding Buddhism. The most common misconception? That he's a monk, or that he has "tricks to not feeling bad". Today Martin’s ...

The grandson of Baptist ministers, a student of Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, and an ordained Buddhist monk, author and teacher Lama Marut is coming to the Bible Belt this week for three events ...

Norman Fischer has dedicated his life to Buddhism, rising to the position of abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center. But he was born a Jew and grew up chanting the Psalms in Hebrew. Once he learned the ...

Ajahn Candasiri is a senior nun at the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hertfordshire. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, speaking to a capacity audience in the Albert Hall in 1984 united his listeners ...

Limón, the 24th poet laureate of the U.S., urges the public to view poetry as a reminder of their shared humanity in this captivating lecture, which she delivered at the Library Continue reading » The ...

Marcel Proust may have written a novel over 4,000 pages long, but there are other books out there of goliath proportions not in their length, but their size. Religious texts in particular have gotten ...