It is now spring and April is the month of rebirth. When the Prince was born, he took seven steps in each direction proclaiming, “I shall be the holy one of Heaven and Earth, and put an end to the ...

An admission that he once led “a fairly degenerate lifestyle” might be surprising and hopeful from a man who believes he is destined to become a Buddha -- an enlightened one who lives in perfect peace ...

Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many may not know is that this interpretation differs vastly from its practice in East Asia. I have ...

THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people—including the Dalai Lama—practice Buddhism. An outgrowth of Hinduism, Buddhism accepts the central Hindu idea of reincarnation: every soul turns on a wheel ...

Buddhism comes from Hinduism, in somewhat the same way that Christianity derives from Judaism: the Buddha, before his enlightenment, is said to have been Hindu, just as Jesus was a Jew. And not ...

More than two thousand years ago, in a village in North India, Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under what became known as the Bodhi tree. This multilayered historical ethnography ...