From Plato and the Qur'an to mysticism and neuroscience, this article traces how reason, experience, and culture shape our deepest questions about existence Shabeer Ahmad Lone The Qur’an calls humans ...

Yunju Temple’s millennia-old Fangshan stone scriptures are preserved and revitalized through global cooperation, digital technology and cultural innovation.

In the 1950s, Chinese experts conduct rubbing work on the stone scriptures at Yunju Temple and Shijing Mountain. Photo: ...

Explore the evolution of stupas, their significance, and the cultural heritage surrounding the Piprahwa relics in this ...

Cut from a sheer cliff face nearly a thousand years ago, India's Ajanta Caves are home to sacred Buddhist spaces adorned with vibrant works of ancient art. Carved in timeThe Buddhist cave temples near ...

While the India-ASEAN trade review chugs along, and negotiators circle the text, the terrain is shifting. Buddhism is now not only integral to the Modi government’s cultural diplomacy with the ASEAN, ...

More than a dozen Buddhist monks stopped in Houston on Nov. 14, 2025, as part of a 2,000-mile journey on foot. At the corner of Bellaire Boulevard and Boone Road, on a warm day in west Houston, more ...

Clad in brown robes, some barefoot, with simple packs in their shoulders, 19 Buddhist monks began their 2,300-mile walk of peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to promote national healing, unity ...

For more about mindfulness, sati, and samprajanna, see Jay Garfield, "Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue, and Perfection", in A Mirror Is for Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics, pages ...

SEOUL, July 8 (Yonhap) -- A rare Goryeo-era Buddhist scripture painstakingly transcribed in gold ink and a valuable painting from early Joseon depicting ten kings who judge the dead have been returned ...

Three Buddhist nuns knocked gently on the door. They folded their hands, bowed their heads and waited for the woman they refer to as a modern-day Buddha. The woman, known here as Awakened Zen Master ...

Buddhists are the only group in this report whose number declined worldwide between 2010 and 2020. This was due both to religious disaffiliation among Buddhists in East Asia and to a relatively low ...