The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

Buddhist temples vary in style and design, but they usually feature a main hall, a Buddha statue and space to meditate.

A recent study by the Pew Research Center surveyed “religious switching” around the world and found that significant ...

More than 20 of adults have departed from the religious groups in which they were raised, according to a Pew Research Center ...

Covered in dust and resembling a Buddhist statue, the face of a dead monk emerges from the rubble of a religious examination hall in Mandalay flattened by Myanmar's devastating earthquake.

World religions do not champion hate. They don’t urge it, and often, when people quote a particular chapter and verse to justify their hate, that statement is taken out of ...

What the Netflix hit gets wrong about Buddhist practices - ANALYSIS: Thailand and its Buddhist traditions provide the ...

It’s the sort of claim that goes down smoothly for those with post-Christian, pluralistic sensibilities. In fact, many modern ...

For many people, religion helps protect against depression by providing social support networks, frameworks for understanding ...

Contrary to popular Western beliefs about Buddhist meditation, it is not viewed as a secular practice. Thai Buddhists believe that meditation is a meritorious activity, helping them not only to ...

New research shows a worldwide trend of people either leaving the religion they were raised in or completely dropping religion, with Christianity taking a particularly big hit.

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have ...