In this week's episode, Rick catches up with up with an old friend, the Ratliff brothers get too close, and Tim has a moment ...

Often called a kundi or kundika, particularly in Buddhist literature, some of the earliest known examples of the kamandalu ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

God is described as male in many religions and referred with masculine imagery, but when asked, many religious types insist that God has no gender.

The recent transfer of cultural artifacts, including several Tibetan Buddhist relics, from the US to China may help advance the Chinese government’s efforts to distort Tibet’s history and appropriate ...

By the time of the reign of the Northern Wei empire, both Taghbah and Chinese cultures had become deeply familiar with Buddhism, a religion that they had inherited from India in a long process of ...

We have no such “all-perfect” God idea in Buddhism. There is mention of a “creator of all” in sutras, but mostly these ...

A fascinating new study shows how these seemingly contradictory practices might share more in common than anyone realized.

Buddhism as a Cultural Ambassador Soft power is the power to affect others by influencing culture, values, and ideology ...

While his scholarship is commendable, his interpretation of “militant Buddhism” fails to contextualize the Sri Lankan case ...