The one Buddhist word many people know is karma. Some say it means good things happen to good people and bad to bad. Payback. Destiny. What goes around comes around. Maybe, but in Buddhism everyone is ...

Fox News commentator Brit Hume created quite a stir recently when he suggested that the only hope for Tiger Woods is to convert from his mother's Buddhism to Christianity. "He's said to be a Buddhist, ...

Fasting is the process of not eating or drinking for an extended period. While possibly looked at as starving oneself, fasting provides many spiritual, physical and mental benefits when done for the ...

Janice and I are sitting at the kitchen table, enjoying our morning coffee. Silently, we gaze out the sliding-door windows on this late summer morning. I notice the hazy sky. I think it is probably ...

Writing a preface for this book, Fr. Aloysius Pieris, SJ, describes Elizabeth Harris, the author of this book, as ‘someone who has lived much of her life in solidarity with Sri Lanka’. This sums up a ...