Though we've read about it in history books, or have heard about its lifestyle changes, exactly what is Buddhism? Buddhism is a religion that has been practiced for more than 2,500 years starting in ...

Ever since he was a child growing up in Duluth, Steve Hagen desired to know truth. "I wanted to know what's going on and to not be fooled. I wanted to know what was real and genuine and true," he said ...

As part of the Berlin School global Executive MBA program, participants travel each year to Asia where they spend two weeks in Shanghai and Tokyo. The intensive residency introduces them to the region ...

This is FRESH AIR. The publication of Peter Matthiessen's final novel "In Paradise" is coinciding with his obituary. He died Saturday at the age of 86. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of my ...

In Zen Buddhism, wisdom has a lineage; one begins by thanking one’s teachers. Only now, thanks to a translation by Beata Grant, can early female masters be thanked. Professor of Chinese and religious ...

An author owns a snappy title, and then the snappy title owns the author. Robert Wright, having titled his new book “Why Buddhism Is True,” has to offer a throat-clearing preface and later an ...

As a longtime student of Zen meditation, I view my life as an endless series of moments stacked in perpetuity, one upon the other; instant by instant, with me as the observer overseeing the whole ...

“The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition” is the new book by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel. Published in February by Shambhala Publications, the book ...