Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit. It commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.

Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often portray him sitting alone under the bodhi tree, his body emaciated from fasting. Some depictions show the Buddha’s right hand pointing down, asking the earth ...

Understanding key to becoming a Buddhist" Buddhism has become the way to peace for John Milford. Peace with himself. Peace with the world. Three years ago, Milford, 40, and his wife Maria, 37, made ...

Robert A.F. Thurman wanted to clear up one thing for the audience that recently packed the auditorium at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth. Before he began his discussion of the work in the museum’s ...

(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 ...

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