This report originally appeared on Oct. 8, 2007 in The Ithaca Journal. It provides background on the Namgyal Monastery and the Buddhist philosophy. The Namgyal Monastery on Aurora Street was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Children attend the Children Becoming Buddhist Monks ceremony at a Chogye temple on Friday in Seoul, South ...

One should learn to let thoughts arise and be freed to go as soon as they arise, instead of letting them invade one’s mind. In the freshness of the present moment, the past is gone, the future is not ...

As we walk, Dan Zigmond pulls on a black baseball cap. The sun is high, and the trees give little shade. It's a big park---stretching across a good nine acres of grass, mulch, shrubs, and gravel paths ...

Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama childhood--a place where the preacher hadn't done his job unless he whipped parishioners into a spiritual frenzy that left them ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A group of local residents want to bring enlightenment and harmony to the area through sacred arts ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...

Mount Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, is called the "Sleeping Buddha" for its resemblance to a reclining silhouette of the Buddha. It is revered by locals as the stance ...