A teenage Buddhist lama recently blessed thousands at a monastery in the Himalayan foothills. Just six months earlier and half a world away, he was pulling all-nighters to play Madden NFL on his Xbox ...

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Peloton instructor and former monk Sam Yo is putting all of his inspirational advice into a new book, "The Monk's Mindset." ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s ...

I've tasted all of the things on the buffet of life that queer hedonism offers for me, and yet that has not answered the ...

At Xizang Buddhism University, a quiet sense of reflection offers insight into some of modern society's most pressing ...

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A Sri Lankan court has released a senior Buddhist monk on bail after he was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor ...

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