Tag: buddhism
On Bodhi Day, Buddhists commemorate Siddhartha Gautama’s enlightenment by lighting lamps...
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee
Dec. 8 marks the celebration of Bodhi Day in Japanese Buddhism. Bodhi means enlightenment...
What is the Japanese ‘wabi-sabi’ aesthetic actually about? ‘Miserable tea’ and...
Paul S. Atkins, University of Washington
On a recent visit to New York I stopped at a Japanese bookstore...
With fewer than 1,500 Catholics in Mongolia, Pope Francis’ upcoming visit...
Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University
Pope Francis is set to make the first-ever visit to Mongolia, a country with...
What is the rosary? Why a set of beads and prayers...
Kayla Harris, University of Dayton
It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our...
What is walking meditation?
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking...
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
Pierce Salguero, Penn State
Mindfulness is seemingly everywhere these days. A Google search I conducted in January 2022 for...
What the world can learn from the Buddhist concept loving-kindness
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
As the world deals with the trauma caused by COVID-19, World Kindness Day, observed on...
Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous
Michael J. Poulin, University at Buffalo
When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan....
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
