Churches, temples and monasteries are closing as people in many countries turn away from organized religions. The problem is especially serious in rapidly aging societies such as South Korea. As some ...

Pew Research Center recently conducted a survey on religion among Asian Americans, the largest nationally representative survey of its kind to date. In addition, to look more deeply into how Asian ...

(The Conversation) — A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real. My curiosity about the authenticity of ...

(RNS) — Buddhist-oriented mental health practitioners are an assorted bunch. Some are hardcore meditators fully devoted to their dharma path. Others rarely formally meditate and do not identify as ...

SEOUL — A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a crowd of ...

This month’s faith feature is a look at the Buddhist religion. While its local community is much smaller than other religions we have featured, Buddhism is in fact one of the world’s largest religions ...

For the fourth week in a row, a white ex-Catholic Buddhist sits down to teach us about humility. We, a group of six or seven teenagers, roll our eyes at each other. It’s 2013, and we’ve just left the ...

Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

If you pick up an article on the use of therapeutic mindfulness practices or Buddhist meditation in psychotherapy, you are almost certain to find that article begin by introducing such activities as a ...

Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread ...

In the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, reminders of Buddhism, the majority faith, can be found just about everywhere. Colorful prayer flags sway in the breeze along roadsides, while giant prayer wheels — ...