Mission patches are a decades-old tradition in spaceflight. They can range from the figurative to the abstract, prompting valuable insights or feeding confusion. Some are just plain weird. Ars ...

THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people—including the Dalai Lama—practice Buddhism. An outgrowth of Hinduism, Buddhism accepts the central Hindu idea of reincarnation: every soul turns on a wheel ...

(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 ...

Prince Siddhartha with his foster mother Mahaprajapati. A 1910 painting by Maligawage Sarlis. Photo by MediaJet, 2009 via Wikimedia Commons Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what ...

Megan Bryson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

This month’s faith feature is a look at the Buddhist religion. While its local community is much smaller than other religions we have featured, Buddhism is in fact one of the world’s largest religions ...

(RNS) — In a dimly lit Roman Catholic church in Manhattan, a dozen or so congregants sit as the Rev. Michael Holleran leads them in contemplative prayer. There is some singing, and some prayers said ...

Found across Asia, these popular theme parks began as temple gardens that warned visitors of Buddhism’s many levels of hell—and the gruesome fates that awaited them there. Singapore’s Haw Par Villa ...

One more note - in China, very few people are exclusively one religion or another. If someone actually says they're only a Buddhist in China, they're probably in religious orders as a monk or a nun.

Mother’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on what motherhood means in different religions and cultures. As a scholar of Buddhism and gender, I know how complicated Buddhist attitudes toward ...