Tag: buddhism
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....
‘WandaVision’ echoes myths of Isis, Orpheus and Kisa Gotami to explain...
Michael Nichols, Martin University
During a flashback scene in Marvel’s Disney Plus show “WandaVision,” the superpowered android Vision comforts...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
