Dr. Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara, who makes valuable contributions to Buddhist literature in these columns, has written ...

The one Buddhist word many people know is karma. Some say it means good things happen to good people and bad to bad. Payback.

In Buddhism, the concept of rebirth signifies the cyclical journey of birth, death, and rebirth, intricately intertwined with the workings of kamma (or karma).

Souls trembling before judgment, a boiling cauldron and a chance at redemption through a blooming lotus — these striking ...

Who am I? And I am not alone here. There are others. Who are the closest to me as my own family members? The Mother and ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has ...

Namdol Phuntshok remembers carrying around rose beads and wearing only “red or yellow” so that her parents would understand her “calling” to become a nun. The y ...

The succession of the Dalai Lama is less a theological debate than a collision between a displaced people’s spiritual ...

In a powerful reaffirmation of faith and continuity, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has confirmed that he will have a ...

The Dalai Lama has long been wary of Beijing’s attempt to meddle with the reincarnation system of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhists believe in the circle of rebirth, and ...