In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...

HEMPSTEAD - A line of colorfully robed monks slowly walked around a small altar adorned with a white statue of Buddha. They sprinkled water on the ground as chants and drums echoed over the green ...

U.S.-born Buddhist lama Jalue Dorje (right) and a member of the Minnesota Tibetan community bow and touch foreheads in a traditional Tibetan greeting at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony on ...

Introduction : gendered materialization of Guanyin -- Dancing Guanyin : the transformative body and Buddhist courtesans -- Painting Guanyin with brush and ink : negotiating Confucianism and Buddhism - ...

(The Conversation) — In a story in the Buddhist canon, a grief-stricken mother named Kisa Gautami loses her only child and carries the body around town, searching for some way to resurrect the child.

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, embarked on a journey that was as much about spiritual discovery as it was about technological innovation. In 1974, a young Jobs traveled to India in ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Elaine Lai, Stanford University (THE CONVERSATION) In a story in the Buddhist ...