Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at a Buddhist temple in downtown Tokyo, eagerly stretching their hands to catch the dried ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

For Buddhist thinkers, all human suffering is caused by desire ... In Pāli, the word for desire, attachment or craving is taṇhā, literally meaning "thirst." This form of craving forms the background ...

Buddhism is a "wisdom tradition," meaning that it is based on the realizations or insights of the historical Buddha and that it holds that all suffering and even the suffering of death are related to ...

I sometimes eat meat, but today it's all vegetarian! The dharmachakra, also known as wheel of dharma, is widely used as the symbol of Buddhism. It shows a wheel with eight spokes, representing the ...