HOUSTON, Texas – For weeks, a group of Buddhist monks walking across the country on a 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” made their way through Texas before two members of the group were injured in a crash ...

More than a dozen Buddhist monks stopped in Houston on Nov. 14, 2025, as part of a 2,000-mile journey on foot. At the corner of Bellaire Boulevard and Boone Road, on a warm day in west Houston, more ...

In her mid-60s, Bay Area Zen practitioner Moon, former editor of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Turning Wheel magazine, writes, “I wanted to look right into the face of oldness. What is it?” Gentle ...

Clad in brown robes, some barefoot, with simple packs in their shoulders, 19 Buddhist monks began their 2,300-mile walk of peace from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., to promote national healing, unity ...

Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch. Monks and experts hope the buzz will translate into deeper engagement. Young South Koreans are buying Buddhist merch ...

My daughter, Alice, is almost two, and quite funny. Although she can say short sentences—“I need cake!”—her humor isn’t particularly verbal. Instead, she giggles while stumbling around in grownup ...

Is it possible to feel physical pain without suffering? For thousands of years, that question has fueled Buddhist mindfulness practices that combat pain relief by embracing the inevitability of ...

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Three psychologists walk into a bar to compose a witty toast to the power of humor. Or rather I picked up the phone and called each of them about the subject. (I’m just terrible at telling jokes.) But ...

The Tibetan Buddhist community in Minnesota recently celebrated a special spiritual milestone—honoring 18-year-old Jalue Dorje as a reincarnated lama, recognized by the head of Tibetan Buddhism, the ...

Yale scholar David Moe explores the faith and identity of ethnic minorities in his home country of Myanmar. The rural Chin village in the mountains of Myanmar where scholar David Moe was born in 1983 ...