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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

We suffer needlessly because we do not see things as they are. But in the Dharma, things are shown to be empty. Is emptiness some sort of mystical nothingness? Or just another way to say that all ...

The winner of the eighth biennial competition of the Shimada Prize for an outstanding publication on the history of East Asian art will be presented to Patricia Berger, Thursday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., at ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University professor will speak Sept. 17 about religious issues in Buddhism and Christianity. Donald W. Mitchell, professor of philosophy, will present "Buddhist ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A scholarly journal devoted to Buddhism and Christianity and their historical and contemporary interrelationships, ...

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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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME, Ga (AP) — Instead of traditional ...