A key term in Buddhism is emptiness, and that might sound like a terrible thing. Ordinarily, we associate emptiness with depression and despair. A good life is a full life, we believe. An empty life ...

Observing that "Buddhist meditation has been seen as at best a harmless mystical preoccupation, at worst a socially irresponsible self-indulgence," Conradi (Iris Murdoch) offers an idiosyncratic and ...

The Buddhist influence on art of the past 50 years is, like much else in the Buddhist worldview, immeasurable. “Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art,” at the Rubin Museum of Art, ...

The winner of the eighth biennial competition of the Shimada Prize for an outstanding publication on the history of East Asian art will be presented to Patricia Berger, Thursday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., at ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University professor will speak Sept. 17 about religious issues in Buddhism and Christianity. Donald W. Mitchell, professor of philosophy, will present "Buddhist ...

According to Buddhist legend, the first incarnation of the holy figure Padmasambhava occurred in the eighth century, when he appeared as a small child inside a lotus blossom adrift on a lake. Regarded ...

The principles of Buddhism have long inspired the avant-garde (most famously John Cage, who used chance as a way of negating the ego), but the works in this thoughtful show, centered on concepts of ...

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For about a year after Ruth Ozeki’s father died in 1998, she would hear him clearly calling her name while she washed the dishes or folded laundry. The award-winning author, filmmaker and Soto Zen ...