Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...
Newsweek

Tibetan Buddhism: Learning To Let Go

Jan Willis never felt drawn to the Baptist church of her 1950s Alabama childhood--a place where the preacher hadn't done his job unless he whipped parishioners into a spiritual frenzy that left them ...
CultureMap

Dawn Mountain presents Beyond Hard Knocks: Creative Buddhist Voices on Learning from Experience

Dawn Mountain Center for Tibetan Buddhism will host a special symposium on the art of modern spirituality amid chaos at Rice University. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Rice Department of ...
The Macomb Daily

Buddhist monk to speak about meditation, path to end suffering

Work, school, family, appointments, catching up on a favorite TV show – whatever the excuse may be, it’s easy to let life get in the way of your spiritual journey. The practice of meditation and ...
Yahoo

Buddhist nuns and female scholars are gaining new leadership roles, in a tradition that began with the ordination of Buddha's foster mother

In recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that require either ordination status or academic degrees, all of which was quite unheard of in Buddhist monastic traditions in the ...