When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian talks with renowned Buddhist teacher and psychologist Tara Brach about meditation, mindfulness, and ...

The following article of our “Wikipedia Religious Un-Reliable Sources” series focuses on Buddhism as an example of how ...

But is the Buddhist religion, which prevails in China, much more foreign to our customs and our modes of thinking and believing than the Roman Catholic religion is? There are, in fact, many ...

This clip could be used as a summary of the main Buddhist beliefs. Pupils could work in pairs to summarise this clip in 100 words, communicating the essential ideas. This clip could form part of a ...

Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is the most significant figure in the history of religion. Philip Almond's engaging new ... to an altogether different context where Buddhism mixed with the ...

Through a series of edicts carved in stone and placed throughout the empire, Ashoka proclaimed to his people the importance of Buddhist values and his beliefs about how his people should act.