For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he will have a successor after his death, continuing a centuries-old tradition that has ...

The main goal of Buddhism is to break the cycle of rebirth, which is characterized by suffering. However, one family tie remained important for the Buddha – his relationship with his mother.

More than two thousand years ago, in a village in North India, Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under what became known as the Bodhi tree. This multilayered historical ethnography ...

The main goal of Buddhism is to break the cycle of rebirth, which is characterized by suffering. However, one family tie remained important for the Buddha – his relationship with his mother.