As part of an ongoing academic exchange program with the Tibetan universities in exile in India, each year the Five Colleges send 15 students to spend interterm studying Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ...

Taung Kalat is in Burma and was constructed atop a volcano. The astounding thing is that there are precisely 777 steps to ...

Former W&M faculty John Morreall and Tamara Sonn have released a comprehensive survey of the study of religion worldwide, ...

In Myanmar, the military has adeptly employed Buddhism as a tool for leveraging its political power. This practice can be described as “Saffron Washing,” a nod to the concept of ...

Much simpler than Sanskrit, these were the vernacular of the common folk, and the language of heterodox religions like ...

Karma is a concept with a few definitions, specifically in Hinduism and Buddhism. The common sayings “what goes around comes around” and “what you sow is what you reap” are great examples ...

Ahead of Vijaya Dashami, PM Modi witnessed the Lao Ramayana in Lao PDR, celebrating Shri Ram's victory over Ravan. His visit ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred grottoes in North China are being made whole ...

The talk will be an introduction to meditation for those who would like to try but do not know where to start. This open house marks the second year of meditation classes at the library. At the open ...

Cherry blossom time in Japan is – with good reason – famous the world over. For the Japanese, however, autumn is equally ...