When Mihiri Tillakaratne was young, a white scholar visited the Sri Lankan Buddhist temple she had grown up at. The Los Angeles temple was a vibrant hub for many Sri Lankan Americans scattered across ...

An ancient religion brought by Chinese immigrant railroad workers and variations of Buddhism bought by Japanese settlers and later from South East Asian refugees has shaped American Buddhism.

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘Be the Refuge,’ author and former Buddhist chaplain Chenxing Han asks: ‘Where are all the young adult Asian American Buddhists, and what can we learn from them?’ (RNS) — ...

Ruanto-Ramirez is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies-Asian American Studies at Southwestern College and commissioner for Asian & Pacific Islander Relations for the County of San Diego’s Leon L.

Contemporary American Buddhism has a problem; thankfully, unlike Christianity, it has little to do with the politics of the nation state. Buddhism’s problem is with our state-within-the-state, ...

(RNS) — Young Buddhist Editorial gives millennial and Gen Z Asian Americans a place to engage with their religion, culture and identity on their own terms. (RNS) — Devon Matsumoto’s grandfather helped ...

Chinese Buddhism in America: identity and practice / Stuart Chandler -- Shin Buddhism in America: a social perspective / Alfred Bloom -- Japanese Zen in America: Americanizing the face in the mirror / ...

December 25-26, 2024, is Christmas Day and the beginning of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. All of these religious observances honor human hope and divine ideals, though Christmas marks for Christians the birth ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Buddhist Study Center (ABSC) is pleased to announce that it will be celebrating its 70 th anniversary virtually on Dec. 15, which is the birthday of ...

The lotus flower, blooming out of muddy waters, has long been a symbol of rising above suffering. In the wake of Anti-Asian attacks, spiritual leaders hope it can help heal the trauma of racial ...