Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tibetan Buddhist nuns offering prayers in Kathmandu. Prakash/Mathema /AFP via Getty Images Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often ...

Brushing dust off a thick, bound 14th century volume, Professor Robert Buswell stood in his office, surrounded by a chronicled literary history of ancient Buddhist culture. “Sorry if it’s messy in ...

Venerable Phra Brahmagunabhorn (P.A. Payutto) is one of Thailand's most highly respected monks and a leading scholar of Thai Theravada Buddhism. His profound knowledge of Buddhist scriptures is widely ...

Mile Shangsheng Jing dates back to AD 927 and is the second-earliest surviving printed document found in China. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Three sacred Buddhist texts are now on display in ...

(The Conversation) — The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation of domestic life. (The ...