The Niceville Christian Church, 225 Pine Ave., is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.

Morning market at Setagaya Kannon Visiting temples only for memorial services seems to be a thing of the past.

As you might see above, there's a new feature on Buddhism and equanimity , which is something I'm working on personally.

Posted by James Shaheen in : Art , Buddhism , History , Science , trackback Not to be an alarmist, but preserving Buddhism's past is an increasingly challenging endeavor.

Posted by Monty McKeever in : Buddhism , Environment , Mindfulness , Tibetan Buddhism , trackback I recently came across this interview in the Asia Sentinel with Ogyen Trinley Dorje, one of the two young lamas recognized as the 17th Karmapa.

Posted by Rachel Hiles in : Buddhism , Meditation , Mindfulness , Vipassana , trackback In today's New York Times , Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, describes his experience returning to technology after a week-long Buddhist meditation retreat at Insight Meditation Society .

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has turned his attention to how Buddhism could help ecology.

The temple of a famous Buddhist reconciles tensions between communism and religion, writes Jim Eagles.

Vipassana is a Pali word that means 'insight into reality' or 'to see things as they really are'. In reference to Buddhism, it refers both to a form of meditation, and to a specific movement within contemporary Buddhism.

Jessica Miller writes on Killing the Buddha : Those of you who thought Buddhism was still the proverbial last righteous man in Sodom might be disappointed to read August 20th's New York Times .

Dennis Hunter, historical consciousness, and the speed of Buddhism's transition to the West August 31, 2010 When we ask, "What shape will Buddhism take in the West?" most of us are bringing a historical consciousness to the question; we recognize that Buddhism has reinvented itself everywhere that it has gone in order to most effectively suit the ...

Posted by Philip Ryan in : Buddhism , Tibetan Buddhism , food , trackback When we don't yet have a direct experience of interdependence and boundarylessness things can get a little abstract and vague.

"Ron was one of the heroic figures of the Cass Corridor in the '70s and '80s," wrote one fellow poet, Tyrone Williams, at an online discussion board.

Many people look to Siddhartha Gautama as an example of someone who attained nirvana, a buddha.

The term Mani stone may also be used in a loose sense to refer to stones on which any mantra or devotional designs are inscribed.