Observing that "Buddhist meditation has been seen as at best a harmless mystical preoccupation, at worst a socially irresponsible self-indulgence," Conradi (Iris Murdoch) offers an idiosyncratic and ...

A key term in Buddhism is emptiness, and that might sound like a terrible thing. Ordinarily, we associate emptiness with depression and despair. A good life is a full life, we believe. An empty life ...

Meditation teacher Anā layo (The Signless and the Deathless) presents a wise if somewhat esoteric exploration of emptiness and its relation to Buddhist tradition. Drawing on two texts from the Pā li ...

The Buddhist influence on art of the past 50 years is, like much else in the Buddhist worldview, immeasurable. “Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art,” at the Rubin Museum of Art, ...

The Heart Sutra in Buddhism emphasizes the journey from emptiness to compassion, clarifying that emptiness is not synonymous with nothingness. The Dalai Lama suggests using emptiness to dissolve ...

1. Wealthy Esoteric: the Esoteric School emphasizes sophisticated dharma functions, ritual practice, and offering to one's teachers. Thus, it is practiced amongst the wealthier. 2. Poor Chan: the Chan ...

One of the great paradoxes of Buddhist-Christian relations is that Buddhist worldviews diverge so radically from Christian perspectives that in many ways it seems difficult to imagine any ...

The principles of Buddhism have long inspired the avant-garde (most famously John Cage, who used chance as a way of negating the ego), but the works in this thoughtful show, centered on concepts of ...

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was born in Nubri of Gorkha district in 1975, and is the guru of the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Author of four books, including the New York Times ...