When Mihiri Tillakaratne was young, a white scholar visited the Sri Lankan Buddhist temple she had grown up at. The Los Angeles temple was a vibrant hub for many Sri Lankan Americans scattered across ...

American Buddhist writers have attempted to capture the beginner's mind in reshaping not only the metaphysics of American values in their lives but also reshaping aesthetic expressions in their ...

The popular caricature of American Buddhism is perhaps of a Zen master practicing in a remote locale in the rural highlands surrounding the Bay Area of California or of a Chinese immigrant with a ...

MARY ALICE WILLIAMS: Buddhism is the world’s fourth largest religion, founded about 2500 years ago in India. The Buddha taught that life is suffering and the way to overcome that is to get rid of ...

As anyone who hasn’t spent the last few years meditating in a cave in Asia knows, American Buddhism is booming. The 1990s saw three Buddhist movies and a gaggle of celebrity Buddhist pitchmen, ...

An ancient religion brought by Chinese immigrant railroad workers and variations of Buddhism bought by Japanese settlers and later from South East Asian refugees has shaped American Buddhism.

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘Be the Refuge,’ author and former Buddhist chaplain Chenxing Han asks: ‘Where are all the young adult Asian American Buddhists, and what can we learn from them?’ (RNS) — ...

The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation For American Buddhism today announced the launch of the Pay It Forward Sustainability Finance Fund, an innovative program designed to assist Lenz Foundation grantees ...

SAN JOSE — Hours after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the first person to be arrested — a half hour before the declaration of martial law — was Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba, leader of ...