Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Mihiri Tillakaratne was young, a white scholar visited the Sri Lankan Buddhist temple she had grown up at. The Los Angeles ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Lao-Americans from across the country celebrated at the Capitol today to recognize and bless the newly constructed temple. The Wat Lao Buddharam Buddhist temple, constructed in ...

(RNS) — ‘Emergent Dharma’ will offer essays from 11 Asian American women writers who confront the whitewashed, patriarchal and model-minority myths embedded in dominant understandings of American ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Buddhist Study Center (ABSC) is pleased to announce that it will be celebrating its 70 th anniversary virtually on Dec. 15, which is the birthday of ...

December 25-26, 2024, is Christmas Day and the beginning of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. All of these religious observances honor human hope and divine ideals, though Christmas marks for Christians the birth ...

In the fall issue of the American Buddhist magazine Tricycle, Clark Strand, a contributing editor and former Zen monk, makes a provocative claim: American Buddhism must "change or die." American ...

In East Asia, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha’s death and entrance into final enlightenment in February. But at my local Zen temple in North Carolina, the Buddha’s enlightenment is commemorated during ...

Ruanto-Ramirez is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies-Asian American Studies at Southwestern College and commissioner for Asian & Pacific Islander Relations for the County of San Diego’s Leon L.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American My previous post describes a week-long silent ...

When Mihiri Tillakaratne was young, a white scholar visited the Sri Lankan Buddhist temple she had grown up at. The Los Angeles temple was a vibrant hub for many Sri Lankan Americans scattered across ...