See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama ...

As the world deals with the trauma caused by COVID-19, World Kindness Day, observed on Nov. 13 annually, is a good opportunity to reflect on the healing potential of both large and small acts of ...

In his first chapter of nothingness and emptiness: a buddhist engagement with the ontology of jean-paul sartre, Steven Laycock describes the enigmas of the lotus and kelp, both of whom live in dual ...

Buddhism and Happiness” addresses one of the great, perennial human questions: “is happiness possible”? Through fun-spirited ...

This is the second essay in The Angsty Buddhist, a series about being Chinese American, nonbinary, and finding my own relationship with Buddhism, in a country where so many of its ideas have been ...

Interest in Buddhism has swelled in recent years alongside the rise of mindfulness, yet the ways in which it is approached, including by therapists, is often piecemeal, with the work of Mark Epstein ...

You can’t learn to play tennis by holding a racket for a few minutes every few months. With meditation, the effort is aimed at developing not a physical skill but an inner enrichment. In extreme cases ...

A pulsating cosmopolis of 10 million, Bangkok at times seems like the most unlikely Buddhist city on earth, despite the glittering spires of its famed shrines and temples. It’s tempting to view the ...

Could Christianity’s future lie in Buddhism’s past? This is a possibility that’s been haunting me lately, but in a good way, I think. One big critique, understandably, of postmodern views on Christian ...