A Tibetan artist named Gade has combined his love of Western pop culture and Tibetan wall painting by introducing some very familiar comic book characters to the ancient art of his country. The works ...

Anthony Clark speaks Mandarin fluently, studied in Beijing, and taught tai chi and kung fu for more than 15 years. Students can pop into the Whitworth University professor's office anytime to practice ...

As the Buddhist community in America continues to grow, and readers who are not necessarily Buddhist are drawn to Buddhist ideas and practices, publishers have found success promoting translated ...

The popular caricature of American Buddhism is perhaps of a Zen master practicing in a remote locale in the rural highlands surrounding the Bay Area of California or of a Chinese immigrant with a ...

In the summer of 2003, I was reading Gail Omvedt’s Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste, which had just been ...

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘Be the Refuge,’ author and former Buddhist chaplain Chenxing Han asks: ‘Where are all the young adult Asian American Buddhists, and what can we learn from them?’ (RNS) — ...

Though this is an uneven book with odd, icy patches of mannered prose and needlessly sensationalistic riffs it demonstrates Wagner s range as a writer, reminding us, after the embarrassing and ...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Everyone has a dream: to sail around the globe, to go cross-country on a motorcycle or to climb every mountain. In 1998, Edward A. Gargan decided to pursue his dream: to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Anyone who has attempted meditation only to discover that their mind whirs faster than an 8-year-old with a fidget spinner knows that sitting in peaceful ...

Sonia Faleiro's new book, 'The Robe and the Sword,' explores the unsettling rise of Buddhist extremism in South Asia, ...