Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

Buddhism does not center on a creator god, but that doesn’t make it atheist in the modern sense. The Buddha avoided ...

(The Conversation) — The Mahāyāna branch of Buddhism likely emerged around the first centuries A.D. and was most readily carried through the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. (The Conversation) — ...

In 1972, Jack Kornfield stepped off a plane in Washington, D.C., his head shaved and his body swathed in golden robes. He had come home to see if he could make it as a monk in America. Kornfield had ...

Japan's Shinto belief system is not an organized religion, but rather a collection of beliefs and practices centered around the natural world and ancestry. Though it was originally not an image−based ...

LANSING, KAN. — Lama Chuck Stanford began visiting a small group of Buddhist inmates in Kansas six years ago. "Then word got around that I was doing this," Stanford says, "and I started getting calls ...

Teryl Pittman labored to settle cross-legged on a cushion on the floor. Slowly, she tucked one foot under the other and straightened her back, her eyes closed and hands joined in her lap, palms facing ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 15 most Buddhist countries in the world. From ancient civilizations until the twenty-first century, with the variety and numerous religious organizations ...