Richard Gere and wife solve family issues with Buddhism

Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra Silva solve family problems by drawing on Buddhism because it brings peace and calmness.

Exclusive: Richard Gere reveals one strict marriage rule with wife Alejandra Silva

Richard Gere opened up about his family life and marriage to Alejandra Silva during an exclusive chat with HELLO! during a ...
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The manga monk: teaching Buddhism through comics

NYUZEN, Toyama Prefecture--Buddhist priest Yoshiyuki Kondo is offering his own brand of enlightenment through a manga comic series he created after his own life took a difficult turn. Kondo, a former ...
Cal Alumni Association

Rethinking Buddhism

Buddhism, venerable and ancient world religion, has lately found itself in the thick of a cutting-edge dialogue with modern science. This dialogue has included the Mind & Life conferences, where the ...
The New Yorker

What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t | The New Yorker

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...
The Independent

Why do we think of Buddhism as peaceful?

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PBS

Comments on Tensions in American Buddhism

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly invited several scholars to comment on the divisions and direction of Buddhism in America today: Carl Bielefeldt is professor of religious studies and co-director of the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Who Gets Buddhism 'Right'? Reflections of a Postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' Convert

In a recent article by Jarni Blakkarly, he generously featured my thoughts on the ethical role of faith, our capacity to relate to others with trust or "good faith," in supporting Buddhist practice.
Nippon

Buddhism at the Beginning: The Life of the Enlightened One

Buddhism began around 2,500 years ago. Its founder was a person known to history as Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha was born into a noble family in the kingdom of Kapilavastu, close to what is now the ...
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Edo-Period Buddhism as Part of the Apparatus of Shogunal Control

Buddhism in Japan today is made up of many different sects or schools, each with its own set of teachings, normally drawing on traditions and doctrines associated with a particular set of sutras. Most ...
CNN

When Buddhists were Public Enemy No. 1

Editor’s Note: Peter Manseau is the author of several books on religion, including, most recently, “One Nation Under Gods: A New American History.” The views in this column belong to Manseau. When the ...