The Tashi Choling Center for Buddhist Studies in Oregon has announced that Dhomang Gyatrul Rinpoche died on 8 April.
While some have pointed to the Tibetan tradition of greeting others with one’s tongue outstretched, a Delhi-based child’s rights group said that cultural expressions like this are not acceptable
Von Wiegand’s work has been hailed as perhaps one of the first American artists to produce an image of “Modern Buddhism.”
The recognition helps to continue a lineage of reincarnated lamas that spans back nearly 400 years, connecting the Geluk Buddhist traditions of Tibet and Mongolia
A delegation of more than 100 monastics from Taiwan’s United Association of Humanistic Buddhism recently met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
The pioneering American jazz musician Wayne Shorter, a longtime practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89 years old.
The Niwano Peace Foundation has announced that the Indian social activist Rajagopal P. V. will be the recipient of the 40th Niwano Peace Prize.
The influential Buddhist monk Venerable Hsing Yun, the founding patriarch of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order has died in Taiwan.
The Buddhist leader had been self-exiled from Russia for months
A growing number of Buddhists and Buddhist organizations around the world believe that the process of finding a successor should not be politicized
More than a thousand Buddhist monastics and lay practitioners gathered at Tu Hieu Temple in Vietnam to commemorate the passing of Thich Nhat Hanh.
The revered American Buddhist monastic Ven. Thubten Chodron returned to Singapore in December, where she gave her first public teachings since the pandemic.
