Reincarnation is part of Buddhism, so no matter how slow your progress toward enlightenment, it's not wasted, Buddhists believe. The progress you make in one life gives you a better starting point in ...

When monk asks master "How may I enter in the Way," the master points to a stream and responds, "Do you hear that torrent? There you may enter." Walking in the mountains, a master asked, "Do you smell ...

Buddhist teachings and practices have the goal of Enlightenment — a simple yet challenging claim for a religion that sometimes works with riddles, as DW's Rick Fulker learned in an exhibition on ...

Jodo Shinshu Buddhism was founded 8,000 kilometres east of Calgary more than 800 years ago. Its origins involve a radical monk, a Pure Land, and, as is true of all Buddhist schools of thought, the ...

This series will cover the essential teachings and practices of Theravada Buddhism. The Series will include the story of the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Five ...

George Jeffus, with the Nichiren Buddhist Temple of Portland, rings a bell 108 times to symbolize the 108 earthly desires at the start of a Portland Buddhist Festival at Colonel Summers Park.