Looming at over 230 feet tall, the behemoth Leshan Giant Buddha is by far the tallest Buddha statue in the world. It is a stalwart sentinel, overlooking the tempestuous waters where the Dadu, Minjiang ...
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet ...
Love is often thought of as a passionate romance or the warmth of close family ties. But Buddha taught love as a skill and a ...
Happy birthday, Buddha! Why the founder of Buddhism has so many different birthdays around the world
A devotee bathes a Buddha statue during celebrations of the Buddha's birthday in Malaysia. Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images When Siddhartha Gautama was born, he was clearly no ...
At first glance, the only thing that the Buddha and St. Patrick seem to have in common is the way they are often degraded into kitsch, cartoonish baby monks and dancing leprechauns that bear little ...
About 25 years ago I had the good fortune to drive one of the world's preeminent Buddhist teachers, Lama Ole Nydahl, from Kennedy Airport to the Diamond Way Buddhism Center in Manhattan. At one point ...
In the long cycle of Vishnu’s ten avatars, each descent of the divine carries a purpose — to protect dharma, to restore balance, to renew creation. Yet one avatar stands apart from the rest: Buddha, ...
I’m sitting in front of my computer drinking from a knobbly, lopsided Japanese tea bowl, with two new books on either side of my keyboard. At my left hand is William Empson’s The Face of the Buddha, ...
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