These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst – stressors that heighten the risk for long-term ...

One of the greatest twists in the recent history of nonfiction came at the end of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004). The book gave physical form to the message-board atheism of the early internet ...

How did the Universe arise? There are two main avenues to answer that existential question: science or religion. Cosmological evidence, gleaned from gazing far out into space (and thus back in time), ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns have grappled with these questions for centuries but, for the first time in their history, they are using science to help find the answers. This summer, as they have ...

Conceived without its supernatural elements, modern Buddhism coalesces “in outlook and insight” with modern biology, says evolutionary biologist Barash (Homo Mysterious). Buddhism’s rejection of ...

A robot named Mindar uses its voice, hand gestures and eye contact to bond with those who want to learn about Buddhism. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and ...

Some 800 km East of Bhutan is the city of Varanasi in India. In the 2566 th year of the Buddhist era, human beings – members of the species Homo sapiens sapiens – total some eight billion individuals ...