Publishers Weekly

Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

Buddhist monk Paley Ellison (Wholehearted) delivers an outstanding guide to the essentials of Buddhist practice. To counter the “tangle” of fears and resentments engendered by modern life, Paley ...
The Conversation

Buddhist nuns and female scholars are gaining new leadership roles, in a tradition that began with the ordination of Buddha’s foster mother

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...
BBC

Buddhism GCSE Revision: Religion, peace and conflict – AQA

A Buddhist monk meditating in a temple. Ahimsa close AhimsaA Sanskrit term meaning ‘non-harm’, used in Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. is a key principle in Buddhist ethics and is expressed in the ...
The New York Times

How Taiwan Became a Refuge for Buddhism

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an exercise in Buddhist practice. The Buddha Museum complex at Fo Guang Shan ...