Anicca is concerned with how resilient a Buddhist is. It encourages Buddhists to accept death and suffering as a part of life. Buddhists accept that everything changes, things are not permanent ...

The Colombo YMBA has been in existence for the past 111 years. Way back in 1898, a group of young Buddhists led by C.S. Dissanayake, a Roman Catholic, who later became a Buddhist by conviction, met at ...

Demons form an essential part of the type of Buddhism practiced in Tibet. Derived from the native Tibetan religion, these ...

This idea is crucial in Buddhist thought. It is one of the key principles of the Buddha’s teaching, or Dhamma. It can best be understood as the interconnectedness of everything in existence.

The Tree of Knowledge identifies four planes of existence Source: Gregg Henriques The short answer: As natural science gained traction, it helped us see that there were no sharp divisions between ...

Philosophical liberalism is the dominant view in the world today. Even those who reject liberalism philosophically, subscribe to its view of freedom, which is a negative view, common to liberalism, ...

But the word “karma” comes from Hindu and Buddhist practices and is specifically talking about how a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence decide their fate in future lives.

The functional value of Buddhism, therefore, is found not purely in its doctrinal aspects dealing with remedial strategies for a series of contradictions relating to existence, but also in the realm ...

The new symbol reflects the nation’s adaptive spirit, harmonizing tradition with modernity, and embodies the profound Buddhist concept of the cyclical nature of existence. This sculpture presents an ...

This volume advocates a trans-regional, and maritime-focused, approach to studying the genesis, development and circulation of Esoteric (or Tantric) Buddhism across Maritime Asia from the seventh to ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment ...