Fox News commentator Brit Hume created quite a stir recently when he suggested that the only hope for Tiger Woods is to convert from his mother's Buddhism to Christianity. "He's said to be a Buddhist, ...

The one Buddhist word many people know is karma. Some say it means good things happen to good people and bad to bad. Payback. Destiny. What goes around comes around. Maybe, but in Buddhism everyone is ...

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank.

Yale scholar David Moe explores the faith and identity of ethnic minorities in his home country of Myanmar. The rural Chin village in the mountains of Myanmar where scholar David Moe was born in 1983 ...

I will look past the obvious idiocy and instead play devil’s advocate to Mr. Hume’s argument that Christianity is better than Buddhism in the redemption category. Buddhism doesn’t have the ability to ...

Janice and I are sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying our morning coffee. Silently, we gaze out the sliding-door windows on this late summer morning. I notice the hazy sky. I think it is probably ...

Fasting is the process of not eating or drinking for an extended period. While possibly looked at as starving oneself, fasting provides many spiritual, physical and mental benefits when done for the ...